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Orrery made 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

Edmund Culpeper

Edmund Culpeper

1720

Ogee moulding plane

Hand and Machine Tools

1704-1728

Model wagon, horse-drawn quarry truck

Railway Models

1730

Barnard Tompion clock

Time Measurement

1708

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

Time Measurement

1715

Chest microscope formerly owned by Pope Benedict XIV

Microscopy (Wellcome)

1701-1730

Compound microscope

Microscopy (Wellcome)

1701-1723

Bottle shaped glass female urinal, Europe, 1701-1730

Public Health & Hygiene

1701-1730

Mezzotint portrait of John Theophilus Desaguliers

Peter Pelham

1725

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

Compass plane, 1717 used for smoothing concave sur

Hand and Machine Tools

1717

Urinal

Public Health & Hygiene

1701-1730

Albarello vase decorated with scene of country villa

Medical Ceramic-ware

1725

Albarello vase decorated with country villa scene

Medical Ceramic-ware

1725

Whole model rigged 20 gun ship

Water Transport

1719-1733

Screw-barrel MIcroscope by Edmund Culpeper, 1728-1730

Microscopes

1728-1730

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

Water Transport

1706-1730
1716-1794, naval surgeon; physician, Scottish; British

Lind, James

1716 - 1794
Large orrery on pedestal base with with gilded horse head decorations beneath the calendar ring and glazed cover, original maker unknown, enlarged by Thomas Wright, Fleet Street, London, 1733. Inscribed 'All the Machinery of this instrument was made new in 1733 by Tho Wright Instrument maker to His MAJESTY GEORGE II'.

George II's Grand Orrery

King George III

1733
1715-current (2017), pharmaceutical manufacturer, England, British

Allen & Hanburys Limited

1715

Medal commemorating Laura Maria Caterina Bassi, Italy, 1732

Wellcome Medals

1732

Bronze standard wine gallon measure, 1707

Weighing & Measuring

1707

Oil jar, Egypt, 1580-1350BCE

Classical & Medieval Medicine

2000-1350 BCE

Wooden snuff box, ovoid shaped, curved sides, silv

Smoking

1722

Engraving of "The Grand Orrery by Rowley"

Astronomy

1715-1728

Edystone Light-House

Henry Winstanley

1703

Italian draw-tube refracting telescope, 1714-1722

Astronomy

1714-1722

Acupuncture training model, China, 1725-1730

Asian Medicine

1725-1730

Wax plaque in wooden frame showing front view of n

Anatomy & Pathology

1701-1730

Machina Coelestis, or the Great Orrery...

Clement Lemprière

1730

Islamic horary quadrant, 1727-1728

Astronomy

1727-1728

Ivory female anatomical figure, Italy, 1701-1730

Anatomy & Pathology

1701-1730

Whole model of battleship HMS 'Captain'

Water Transport

1708-1714
1728-1793, surgeon; anatomist, Scottish

Hunter, John

1728 - 1793

Wooden backstaff

Navigation

1730; 1967

Bronze bell shaped mortar, inscribed with the name

Pharmacy-ware

1727

Nested avoirdupois weights, bronze

Weighing & Measuring

1714-1727
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

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

Wellcome Medals

1714

Ivory piston-action syringe, Europe, 1701-1730

Therapeutics

1701-1730

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

Building Construction

2000-1001 BCE

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

Classical & Medieval Medicine

2000-1001 BCE

Wooden printing press

Printing & Writing

1701-1734

Circle of proportion with rotating central planisphere, with oak box

Mathematics

1701-1733