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Orrery made for the Earl of Orrery

Astronomy

1712-1713

Print of Henry Beighton's Engraving of a Newcomen Engine

Motive Power

1717-1725

Demainbray's Newcomen engine model

King George III

1720

Compound microscope

Microscopy (Wellcome)

1701-1723

Bottle shaped glass female urinal, Europe, 1701-1730

Public Health & Hygiene

1701-1730

Urinal

Public Health & Hygiene

1701-1730

Model wagon, horse-drawn quarry truck

Railway Models

1730

Storage jar

Medical Ceramic-ware

1714

Chest microscope formerly owned by Pope Benedict XIV

Microscopy (Wellcome)

1701-1730

Drug jar for cinchona bark

Medical Ceramic-ware

1701-1730

Ogee moulding plane

Hand and Machine Tools

1704-1728

Barnard Tompion clock

Time Measurement

1708

Mezzotint portrait of John Theophilus Desaguliers

Peter Pelham

1725

Edmund Culpeper

1720

Compass plane, 1717 used for smoothing concave sur

Hand and Machine Tools

1717

Albarello vase decorated with scene of country villa

Medical Ceramic-ware

1725

Albarello vase decorated with country villa scene

Medical Ceramic-ware

1725

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

Lind, James

1716 - 1794

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

Water Transport

1706-1730

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

Time Measurement

1715

Wooden backstaff

Navigation

1730; 1967

1728-1793, surgeon; anatomist, Scottish

Hunter, John

1728 - 1793

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

Allen & Hanburys Limited

1715

Whole model of battleship HMS 'Captain'

Water Transport

1708-1714

Boxwood Coggeshall folding slide rule, 1720-1730.

Mathematics

1720-1730

Acupuncture training model, China, 1725-1730

Asian Medicine

1725-1730

Oil jar, Egypt, 1580-1350BCE

Classical & Medieval Medicine

2000-1350 BCE

Graphometer

Surveying

1710-1720

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

Wellcome Medals

1714

Islamic horary quadrant, 1727-1728

Astronomy

1727-1728

Mummy of a crocodile, Egypt, 2000-1001 BCE

Classical & Medieval Medicine

2000-1001 BCE

Italian draw-tube refracting telescope with stand, 1701-1730

Astronomy

1701-1730

Mummy of a peregrine falcon, Egypt, 2000-1001 BCE

Classical & Medieval Medicine

2000-1001 BCE

Universal equatorial sundial, crescent-shaped with

Time Measurement

1703-1726

Metal memento mori ring, set with a square transparent sonte, faceted, which contains a skull, band bears champleve inscription, 1727

Memento mori ring

Wellcome (general)

1727

Pocket globe by Charles Price, signed and dated 17

Astronomy

1716

Silver Pocket Watch with Silver Dial by Wrench, 1710-1725

Time Measurement

1710-1725

Edystone Light-House

Henry Winstanley

1703

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

Godfrey Kneller

1712

Compound microscope made by Edmund Culpeper, 1720-30, Moorfields, London. Wooden frame and pasteboard and red leather tube with gold-coloured tooling. Complete with pyramid-shaped carry case, specimen slides and accessories.

Early Culpeper microscope

Microscopes

1720-1730

Set of Mathematical instruments by D. Lusuerg, c 1701.

Mathematics

1701

Multiplication aide memoire, early 18th century

Mathematics

1701-1730

Universal pocket sundial

Time Measurement

1701-1721

Ivory piston-action syringe, Europe, 1701-1730

Therapeutics

1701-1730

Model of English 60-gun warship HMS "Chester", of establishment of 1708. This represents a fourth-rate, 663 tons burthen, 125ft x 34.5ft., built and launched at the Chatham dockyard in 1708, which remained in service until it was broken up in February 1749.

Model of English 60-gun warship HMS "Chester"

Warships

c. 1708

Microscope (c.1730), by SCARLETT. Culpeper type, o

Microscopes

1730

Pocket Watch in Triple Case by Quare, 1705-1720

Time Measurement

1705-1720

Pharmacy storage jar for Blessed Thistle Water, Italy, 1702

Medical Ceramic-ware

1702

Ivory female anatomical figure, Italy, 1701-1730

Anatomy & Pathology

1701-1730

Original eight day clock by Harrison, date 1715, wheel work mostly of wood, weight driven

Weight driven pendulum clock

Time Measurement

1715