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Davy Safety lamp

Mining & Ore Dressing

before 1815

Moon globe by John Russell;England;1797

Astronomy

1797

Longcase clock signed James Harrison, brother of John Harrison

Clockmakers

1728

Scientific Researches! - New Discoveries in Pneumaticks! - or, an Experimental Lecture on the Powers of Air

Hannah Humphrey

1802

'Bell-crank' engine, c. 1799

Motive Power

1795-1805 (original)

'Haystack' Boiler, 1775-1799

Motive Power

1775-1799 (original); 1900-1907 (model)

Smellie-type obstetrical forceps

Obstetrics, Gynaecology & Contraception

1701-1800

Verge watch by Peter Debaufre with later modification by Alexander Cumming, London

Clockmakers

1700

Frame saw

Hand and Machine Tools

1700-1800

Ornamental turning 'rose-engine' lathe

Hand and Machine Tools

1740

Dental instruments used for tooth pulling, France, 1700-1800

Dentistry

1700-1800

Five wooden molecular model balls

Scientific Instruments & Research

c. 1810

Shutt End Colliery Railway steam locomotive 'Agenoria'

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1829

Early Culpeper microscope

Microscopes

1720-1730

King George III's archimedean screw

King George III

1762

Sheraton medicine chest, Europe, 1720-1800

Materia Medica & Pharmacology

1720-1800

Majolica pharmacy jar

Medical Ceramic-ware

1730-1750

Equal size sculpture copying machine

James Watt's Garret Workshop

1790-1819

Pocket globe in case by Dudley Adams

Astronomy

1799-1802

Bronze mortar and pestle, Europe, 1701-1800

Pharmacy-ware

1701-1800

Filar micrometer by William Herschel, 1780-1800

Astronomy

1780-1800

Atmospheric Engine by John Smeaton, 1772

Motive Power

1772 (original); 1919 (model)

Mrs. Sage

.Unattributed

1785

Wax anatomical figure of reclining woman

Anatomy & Pathology

1771-1800

Millwright's measuring tool

Weighing & Measuring

around 1790

Barrel and Device from George III's guinea and feather' apparatus

King George III

1761

Model, of Woolf's Water Tube Boiler, 1819

Motive Power

1819

Stanhope square demonstrator, c.1805.

Mathematics

c.1805

Phrenological head

Psychology, Psychiatry & Anthropometry

1821

Pill cutter, England, 1701-1800

Pharmacy-ware

1701-1800

Wax male anatomical figure

Anatomy & Pathology

1750-1774

Barber's chair modified for dental extractions

Dentistry

1701-1800

Pivoted-detent escapement watch by John Arnold

Clockmakers

1776

Silver one-minute tourbillon watch by Breguet et Fils, sold to the Princess de Valençay in 1812.

Clockmakers

1812

Demainbray's speaking trumpet

King George III

1700-1752

Reducing sculpture copying machine

James Watt's Garret Workshop

1790-1819

Hand painted Indian cotton fabric

Textile Industry

1700-1800

Oval snuff box, England, 1807

Smoking

1807

Dividing engine for making sextants and octants

Industrial Metrology

Made late 1700s, modified 1800s

Ornate circumcision knife with ivory handle

Surgery

1775-1785

Spring detent watch by John Arnold, used by Ruth Bellville and family to distribute GMT c.1834-1940

Clockmakers

1794

Hindley's pyrometer and three expansion tubes made by Henry Hindley

King George III

1752

‘Visual glasses’ designed by Benjamin Martin

Optics

1756-1800

Ivory enema syringe, France, 1701-1800

Therapeutics

1701-1800

Ebony and brass octant.

Astronomy

1777-1810

Small screw-cutting device or fusee engine for clock-maker's use

Hand and Machine Tools

c. 1800

Medicine chest owned by Edward Jenner

Materia Medica & Pharmacology

1750-1830

Amulet against the evil eye in the form of a fish

Ethnography and Folk Medicine

1801-1830

Conjectural model of Trevithick's locomotive 'Catch-me-who-can'

Railway Models

1808

'Dr Syntax and his wife making an experiment in pneumatics', print, London, England, 1820

William Combe

1820