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Print of Henry Beighton's Engraving of a Newcomen Engine

Motive Power

1717-1725

Orrery made by John Rowley for the Earl of Orrery

Astronomy

1712-1713

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

Time Measurement

1715

Longcase clock signed James Harrison, brother of John Harrison

Clockmakers

1728

Demainbray's Newcomen engine model

King George III

1720

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

Clockmakers

1710

Mezzotint portrait of John Theophilus Desaguliers

Hans Hysing

1725

Ogee moulding plane

Hand and Machine Tools

1704-1728

Barnard Tompion clock

Time Measurement

1708

Verge escapement watch movement by Thomas Tompion and George Graham.

Clockmakers

1711

Marine timekeeper by Henry Sully, Paris, 1724

Clockmakers

1724

Bottle shaped glass female urinal, Europe, 1701-1730

Public Health & Hygiene

1701-1730

Whole model rigged 20 gun ship

Water Transport

1719-1733

Early Culpeper microscope

Microscopes

1720-1730

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

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

Clockmakers

1701-1708

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

Clockmakers

1702

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

Model wagon, horse-drawn quarry truck

Railway Models

1730

Edmund Culpeper

Edmund Culpeper

1720

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

Mathematics

1701

Acupuncture training model, China, 1725-1730

Asian Medicine

1725-1730

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

Water Transport

1706-1730

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

Classical & Medieval Medicine

2000-1001 BCE
1715-current (2017), pharmaceutical manufacturer, England, British

Allen & Hanburys Limited

1715

Le Cabinet de M. Le Clerc

Sebastien Le

c. 1711

Oil jar, Egypt, 1580-1350BCE

Classical & Medieval Medicine

2000-1350 BCE

Wooden snuff box

Smoking

1722

Mummy of a crocodile, Egypt, 2000-1001 BCE

Classical & Medieval Medicine

2000-1001 BCE

Bronze standard wine gallon measure, 1707

Weighing & Measuring

1707

Wooden printing press

Printing & Writing

1701-1734
Remains of the models of silk machinery introduced from Italy by Sir Thomas Lombe, Derby, England, c. 1732; the remains being: a reel, three spindles with bobbins and flyers and a segment of a circular frame, all half size.

Remains of the models of silk machinery introduced by Sir Thomas Lombe

Textiles Machinery

1732

Boxwood Coggeshall folding slide rule, 1720-1730.

Mathematics

1720-1730

Ivory female anatomical figure, Italy, 1701-1730

Anatomy & Pathology

1701-1730

Islamic horary quadrant, 1727-1728

Astronomy

1727-1728

Mallet shaped glass decanter

Glass Technology

1710

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

Navigation

1730; 1967

Graphometer with magnetic compass

Surveying

1710-1720

Shang Dynasty sacrificial bowl

Asian Medicine

1766-1122 BCE

Barney's Print of the Steam Engine at Dudley Castle

Motive Power

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

Book

James Watt's Garret Workshop

1719

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

Wellcome Medals

1714

Ivory piston-action syringe, Europe, 1701-1730

Therapeutics

1701-1730

Chest microscope formerly owned by Pope Benedict XIV

Microscopy (Wellcome)

1701-1730