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Print of Henry Beighton's Engraving of a Newcomen Engine

Motive Power

1717-1725

Orrery made for the Earl of Orrery

Astronomy

1712-1713

Demainbray's Newcomen engine model

King George III

1720

Drug jar for cinchona bark

Medical Ceramic-ware

1701-1730

Harrison's eight-day wooden clock movement, 1715.

Time Measurement

1715

Longcase clock signed James Harrison, brother of John Harrison

Clockmakers

1728

Mezzotint portrait of John Theophilus Desaguliers

Peter Pelham

1725

Ogee moulding plane

Hand and Machine Tools

1704-1728

Marine timekeeper by Henry Sully, Paris, 1724

Clockmakers

1724

Barnard Tompion clock

Time Measurement

1708

Bottle shaped glass female urinal, Europe, 1701-1730

Public Health & Hygiene

1701-1730

Chest microscope formerly owned by Pope Benedict XIV

Microscopy (Wellcome)

1701-1730

Storage jar

Medical Ceramic-ware

1714

Compound microscope

Microscopy (Wellcome)

1701-1723

Compass plane, 1717 used for smoothing concave sur

Hand and Machine Tools

1717

Model wagon, horse-drawn quarry truck

Railway Models

1730

Edmund Culpeper

Edmund Culpeper

1720

Urinal

Public Health & Hygiene

1701-1730

Albarello vase decorated with scene of country villa

Medical Ceramic-ware

1725

Albarello vase decorated with country villa scene

Medical Ceramic-ware

1725
1715-current (2017), pharmaceutical manufacturer, England, British

Allen & Hanburys Limited

1715
1716-1794, naval surgeon; physician, Scottish; British

Lind, James

1716 - 1794

Silver vinatigrette, shouldered body tapering to s

Pharmacy-ware

1701-800

Model of 90-gun, 2nd-rate, man-of-war naval vessel, built to the 1706 Establishment

Water Transport

1706-1730

Clay tobacco pipe, incomplete, part of stem missin

Smoking

1715-1730

Case for universal equinoctial ring dial

King George III

1710-1729

Pap boat

Nursing & Hospital Furnishings

1728

Bell shaped mortar, flared and inscribed rim, slig

Pharmacy-ware

1703

Six flat brass avoirdupois weights, for 2oz, 1oz, 1oz, 1/2oz, 1/4oz and 1/4oz

Weighing & Measuring

1714-27

Oil jar, Egypt, 1580-1350BCE

Classical & Medieval Medicine

2000-1350 BCE

Bronze standard wine gallon measure, 1707

Weighing & Measuring

1707

Silver vinaigrette, shouldered body tapering to st

Pharmacy-ware

1701-1730

Clay figure of animal

Classical & Medieval Medicine

2000-1000 BCE

Boxwood Coggeshall folding slide rule, 1720-1730.

Mathematics

1720-1730

Mezzotint print of oil painting, portrait of Isaac Newton, 1712

Godfrey Kneller

1712

Whole model of battleship HMS 'Captain'

Water Transport

1708-1714

Silver touchpiece, given at the ceremony of healin

Ethnography and Folk Medicine

1701-1715

Wax plaque in wooden frame showing front view of n

Anatomy & Pathology

1701-1730

Lenticular, early 18th century, steel and ebony

Surgery

1701-1730

Finger ring, metal, inscribed with a posy, divides into three pieces

Wellcome (general)

1709

Wax plaque in wooden frame showing rear view of na

Anatomy & Pathology

1701-1730

Silver medal commemorating the deliverence of Hamburg from plague, Germany, 1714

Wellcome Medals

1714

Ivory piston-action syringe, Europe, 1701-1730

Therapeutics

1701-1730

Islamic horary quadrant, 1727-1728

Astronomy

1727-1728

Acupuncture training model, China, 1725-1730

Asian Medicine

1725-1730
1728-1793, surgeon; anatomist, Scottish

Hunter, John

1728 - 1793

Wooden backstaff

Navigation

1730; 1967

Bronze medallion of Virgin and Child, with glowing

Ethnography and Folk Medicine

1710

Box, for screw barrel microscope

Optics

1728

Polemoscope or 'Jealousy Glass'

Optics

1701-1720