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Demainbray's Newcomen engine model

King George III

1720

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

Longcase clock signed James Harrison, brother of John Harrison

Clockmakers

1728

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

Time Measurement

1715

Marine timekeeper by Henry Sully, Paris, 1724

Clockmakers

1724

Bottle shaped glass female urinal, Europe, 1701-1730

Public Health & Hygiene

1701-1730

Early Culpeper microscope

Microscopes

1720-1730

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

Clockmakers

1701-1708
1715-current (2017), pharmaceutical manufacturer, England, British

Allen & Hanburys Limited

1715

Storage jar

Medical Ceramic-ware

1714

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

Clockmakers

1712

Drug jar for cinchona bark

Medical Ceramic-ware

1701-1730

Compound microscope

Microscopy (Wellcome)

1701-1723

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

Clockmakers

1710

Ogee moulding plane

Hand and Machine Tools

1704-1728

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

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

Urinal

Public Health & Hygiene

1701-1730

Mezzotint portrait of John Theophilus Desaguliers

Hans Hysing

1725

Model wagon, horse-drawn quarry truck

Railway Models

1730

Whole model rigged 20 gun ship

Water Transport

1719-1733

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

Oil jar, Egypt, 1580-1350BCE

Classical & Medieval Medicine

2000-1350 BCE

Polemoscope or 'Jealousy Glass'

Optics

1701-1720

Graphometer with magnetic compass

Surveying

1710-1720

Screw-barrel MIcroscope by Edmund Culpeper, 1728-1730

Microscopes

1728-1730

Le Cabinet de M. Le Clerc

Sebastien Le

c. 1711

Boxwood Coggeshall folding slide rule, 1720-1730.

Mathematics

1720-1730

Italian draw-tube refracting telescope, 1714-1722

Astronomy

1714-1722
1731-1793, natural philosopher (scientist), inventor, English, British

Six, James

1731 - 1793

Wooden snuff box

Smoking

1722

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

Mathematics

1701
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

Ivory female anatomical figure, Italy, 1701-1730

Anatomy & Pathology

1701-1730

Whole model of battleship HMS 'Captain'

Water Transport

1708-1714

Bronze standard wine gallon measure, 1707

Weighing & Measuring

1707

Wooden backstaff or Davis quadrant made by John Gilbert on Tower Hill

Navigation

1730; 1967

Slide-rule, 12-inch, boxwood

Mathematics

1713

Barney's Print of the Steam Engine at Dudley Castle

Motive Power

1719

Repeating Pocket Watch by Daniel Quare, 1705-1715

Time Measurement

1705-1715
1718-1807, physician; clergyman, English

Willis, Francis

1718 - 1807
1          The Treatise of the Figures. By John Stockwood, 1719. Leather 5¾” x 3½”

Book

James Watt's Garret Workshop

1719

Multiplication aide memoire, early 18th century

Mathematics

1701-1730