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Orrery made by John Rowley 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

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

Time Measurement

1715

Longcase clock signed James Harrison, brother of John Harrison

Clockmakers

1728

Early Culpeper microscope

Microscopes

1720-1730

Drug jar for cinchona bark

Medical Ceramic-ware

1701-1730

Striking and repeating watch movement by Thomas Tompion and Edward Bangor.

Clockmakers

1701-1708

Bottle shaped glass female urinal, Europe, 1701-1730

Public Health & Hygiene

1701-1730

Compound microscope

Microscopy (Wellcome)

1701-1723

Storage jar

Medical Ceramic-ware

1714

Verge watch by Daniel Quare, in a polychrome enamel case signed 'Les Frères Huaud'

Clockmakers

1712

Gold pair-cased watch with gold champleve dial, by Daniel Quare

Clockmakers

1710

Ogee moulding plane

Hand and Machine Tools

1704-1728

Marine timekeeper by Henry Sully, Paris, 1724

Clockmakers

1724

Barnard Tompion clock

Time Measurement

1708

Gold pair-cased watch with outer case chased in a basket-weave pattern by Charles Gretton

Clockmakers

1702

Verge escapement watch movement by Thomas Tompion and George Graham.

Clockmakers

1711

Urinal

Public Health & Hygiene

1701-1730

Compass plane

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

Mezzotint portrait of John Theophilus Desaguliers

Hans Hysing

1725

Model wagon, horse-drawn quarry truck

Railway Models

1730

Edmund Culpeper

Edmund Culpeper

1720

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

Classical & Medieval Medicine

2000-1001 BCE

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

Water Transport

1706-1730

Pocket globe by Charles Price

Astronomy

1716

Graphometer with magnetic compass

Surveying

1710-1720

Italian draw-tube refracting telescope, 1714-1722

Astronomy

1714-1722

Oil jar, Egypt, 1580-1350BCE

Classical & Medieval Medicine

2000-1350 BCE
1715-current (2017), pharmaceutical manufacturer, England, British

Allen & Hanburys Limited

1715

Acupuncture training model, China, 1725-1730

Asian Medicine

1725-1730

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

Astronomy

1701-1730

Whole model of battleship HMS 'Captain'

Water Transport

1708-1714
1725-1793, cartographer; hydrographer, French

Roux, Joseph

1725 - 1793

Polemoscope or 'Jealousy Glass'

Optics

1701-1720
1717-c.1955, button maker, Birmingham

Hammond Turner and Sons Limited

1717 - 1955

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

Wellcome Medals

1714

Boxwood Coggeshall folding slide rule, 1720-1730.

Mathematics

1720-1730

Pharmacy storage jar for Blessed Thistle Water, Italy, 1702

Medical Ceramic-ware

1702

Mummy of a crocodile, Egypt, 2000-1001 BCE

Classical & Medieval Medicine

2000-1001 BCE

Mallet shaped glass decanter

Glass Technology

1710

Albarello drug jar used for Lacc resin

Medical Ceramic-ware

1701-1730

Two ivory slides, from Wilson screw barrel microscope

Microscopes

1710-1730

Wooden snuff box

Smoking

1722

Le Cabinet de M. Le Clerc

Sebastien Le

c. 1711
1          The Treatise of the Figures. By John Stockwood, 1719. Leather 5¾” x 3½”

Book

James Watt's Garret Workshop

1719

Ivory piston-action syringe, Europe, 1701-1730

Therapeutics

1701-1730

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

Mathematics

1701