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Orrery made for the Earl of Orrery

Astronomy

1712-1713

Barnard Tompion clock

Time Measurement

1708

Print of Henry Beighton's Engraving of a Newcomen Engine

Motive Power

1717-1725

Demainbray's Newcomen engine model

King George III

1720

Acupuncture training model, China, 1725-1730

Asian Medicine

1725-1730

Mezzotint portrait of John Theophilus Desaguliers

Peter Pelham

1725

Chest microscope formerly owned by Pope Benedict XIV

Microscopy (Wellcome)

1701-1730

Bottle shaped glass female urinal, Europe, 1701-1730

Public Health & Hygiene

1701-1730

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

Time Measurement

1715

Compound microscope

Microscopy (Wellcome)

1701-1723

Ogee moulding plane

Hand and Machine Tools

1704-1728

Storage jar

Medical Ceramic-ware

1714

Drug jar for cinchona bark

Medical Ceramic-ware

1701-1730

Marine timekeeper by Henry Sully, Paris, 1724

Clockmakers

1724

Longcase clock signed James Harrison, brother of John Harrison

Clockmakers

1728

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

Model wagon, horse-drawn quarry truck

Railway Models

1730

Edmund Culpeper

Edmund Culpeper

1720

Wooden backstaff

Navigation

1730; 1967

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

Allen & Hanburys Limited

1715

Islamic horary quadrant, 1727-1728

Astronomy

1727-1728

Italian draw-tube refracting telescope, 1714-1722

Astronomy

1714-1722

Whole model of battleship HMS 'Captain'

Water Transport

1708-1714

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

Classical & Medieval Medicine

2000-1001 BCE

Boxwood Coggeshall folding slide rule, 1720-1730.

Mathematics

1720-1730
Original eight day clock by Harrison, date 1715, wheel work mostly of wood, weight driven

Weight driven pendulum clock

Time Measurement

1715
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

Mummy of a crocodile, Egypt, 2000-1001 BCE

Classical & Medieval Medicine

2000-1001 BCE

Glass decanter, c 1710.

Glass Technology

1710

Polemoscope or 'Jealousy Glass'

Optics

1701-1720

Shang Dynasty sacrificial bowl

Asian Medicine

1766-1122 BCE

Repeating Pocket Watch by Daniel Quare, 1705-1715

Time Measurement

1705-1715
1728-1793, surgeon; anatomist, Scottish

Hunter, John

1728 - 1793

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

Wellcome Medals

1714

Ivory piston-action syringe, Europe, 1701-1730

Therapeutics

1701-1730

Multiplication aide memoire, early 18th century

Mathematics

1701-1730

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

Two ivory slides, from Wilson screw barrel microscope

Microscopes

1710-1730

Pharmacy storage jar for Blessed Thistle Water, Italy, 1702

Medical Ceramic-ware

1702

Memorial stele to the doorkeepr Ruma

Classical & Medieval Medicine

2000-1001 BCE

Pocket Watch in Triple Case by Quare, 1705-1720

Time Measurement

1705-1720

Ivory female anatomical figure, Italy, 1701-1730

Anatomy & Pathology

1701-1730

Square pavement brick from Babylonia (Southern Iraq), 2nd millennium BC.

Building Construction

2000-1001 BCE

Graphometer

Surveying

1710-1720