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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

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

Time Measurement

1715

Drug jar for cinchona bark

Medical Ceramic-ware

1701-1730

Barnard Tompion clock

Time Measurement

1708

Bottle shaped glass female urinal, Europe, 1701-1730

Public Health & Hygiene

1701-1730
1711-1778, philosopher and scientist, Italian

Bassi, Laura Maria Caterina

1711 - 1778

Model wagon, horse-drawn quarry truck

Railway Models

1730

Compound microscope

Microscopy (Wellcome)

1701-1723

Longcase clock signed James Harrison, brother of John Harrison

Clockmakers

1728

Mezzotint portrait of John Theophilus Desaguliers

Peter Pelham

1725

Storage jar

Medical Ceramic-ware

1714

Chest microscope formerly owned by Pope Benedict XIV

Microscopy (Wellcome)

1701-1730

Ogee moulding plane

Hand and Machine Tools

1704-1728

Marine timekeeper by Henry Sully, Paris, 1724

Clockmakers

1724

Albarello vase decorated with scene of country villa

Medical Ceramic-ware

1725

Compass plane, 1717 used for smoothing concave sur

Hand and Machine Tools

1717

Urinal

Public Health & Hygiene

1701-1730

Albarello vase decorated with country villa scene

Medical Ceramic-ware

1725

Islamic horary quadrant, 1727-1728

Astronomy

1727-1728

Edmund Culpeper

Edmund Culpeper

1720
1715-current (2017), pharmaceutical manufacturer, England, British

Allen & Hanburys Limited

1715

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

Water Transport

1706-1730

Oil jar, Egypt, 1580-1350BCE

Classical & Medieval Medicine

2000-1350 BCE

Acupuncture training model, China, 1725-1730

Asian Medicine

1725-1730

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

Classical & Medieval Medicine

2000-1001 BCE

Wooden backstaff

Navigation

1730; 1967

Italian draw-tube refracting telescope, 1714-1722

Astronomy

1714-1722

Whole model of battleship HMS 'Captain'

Water Transport

1708-1714

Bronze standard wine gallon measure, 1707

Weighing & Measuring

1707

Universal pocket sundial

Time Measurement

1701-1721

Wooden snuff box, ovoid shaped, curved sides, silv

Smoking

1722

Bedpan

Public Health & Hygiene

1701-180

Nested avoirdupois weights, bronze

Weighing & Measuring

1714-1727

Screw-barrel MIcroscope by Edmund Culpeper, 1728-1730

Microscopes

1728-1730

Ivory piston-action syringe, Europe, 1701-1730

Therapeutics

1701-1730

Ivory female anatomical figure, Italy, 1701-1730

Anatomy & Pathology

1701-1730

Pocket globe by Charles Price, signed and dated 17

Astronomy

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

Lind, James

1716 - 1794

Timothy Brandreth and George Willdey

Art

1706

Edystone Light-House

Henry Winstanley

1703

Microscope (c.1730), by EDMUND CULPEPER. Tripod le

Microscopes

1730
Gold memento mori finger ring, set with a transparent stone shaped like a coffin which contains the image of a skeleton, band has an enamel inscription

Memento mori ring

Wellcome (general)

1728

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

Mathematics

1701
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

Multiplication aide memoire, early 18th century

Mathematics

1701-1730

Boxwood Coggeshall folding slide rule, 1720-1730.

Mathematics

1720-1730

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

Wellcome Medals

1714

Standard bronze pint measure, City of London, 1702-1714

Weighing & Measuring

1702-1714