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Pair-cased pocket watch

Time Measurement

1705-1737

Pair-cased pocket watch in pinchbeck and leather outer casing with verge escapement, made by Will Kipling, London, 1705-1737. Movement inscribed 'Will Kipling no.483'. The movement consists of silver pillars (jewelled endstone removed).

Model wagon, horse-drawn quarry truck

Railway Models

1730

Model wagon, scale 1:10, truck used by Ralph Allen at quarries near Bath, c.1730.

Whole model rigged 20 gun ship

Water Transport

1719-1733

Contemporary model, 1:48 scale, of 20-gun, 6th-rate, man-of-war naval frigate with full (original) rigging flags and cut-away section showing construction, built to the 1719 Establishment (naval specification) showing hull construction, unsigned, British, 1719-1733. The model is similar to HMS 'Blandford', 1720 and HMS 'Gibraltar' 1727

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

Classical & Medieval Medicine

2000-1001 BCE

Mummy of peregrine falcon, Egyptian, 2000-1001 BC

English glass celestial globe, 1739

Astronomy

1739

Glass celestial sphere (72269/57/1), engraved by John Cowley, 1739, with globe stand by Heath & Wing, London, in the second half of the 18th century. Sphere broken and repaired during 1900s as the cracked and rivetted globe encloses a Newton terrestrial globe with printed gores dated Jan 1st 1897.

Tumbler, horn, with silver strip around rim, 1742

Wellcome (general)

1742

Horn tumbler with silver strip around rim, 1742

Doorcase 56 Lincoln’s Inn Fields

Temporary Exhibitions

c.1750

Doorcase 56 Lincoln’s Inn Fields

Compass plane, 1717 used for smoothing concave sur

Hand and Machine Tools

1717

Compass plane, 1717 used for smoothing concave surfaces.

Albarello vase decorated with scene of country villa

Medical Ceramic-ware

1725

Albarello vase, Italian, 1725, blue and white maiolica, used by the Order of Minimes, scene of country villa

Pewter teapot, with straight and turned wooden handle, 1701-1750

Wellcome (general)

1701-1750

Round pewter teapot with separate lid and straight wooden handle projecting from side, covered with pattern of wavy diagonal fluting, European, 1701-1750

Albarello vase decorated with country villa scene

Medical Ceramic-ware

1725

Albarello vase, Italian, 1725, blue and white maiolica, used by the Order of Minimes, scene of country villa

Edmund Culpeper

1720

Trade card. [Edmund] Culpeper, cross daggers representing his address [Crosse Daggers, Moor Fields] London. diagrams (from top left to top right) for two Platonic solids (cube and tetrahedron), circumferentor, lode-stone, gunner's calipers, Gunter's quadrant, dividers, set-square, horizontal dial, terrestrial globe, protractor, plotting scale, Gunter's rule, sector, dividers, backstaff, telescope, forestaff, nocturnal, parrallel rule, prism, Wilson screw-barrel, microscope, nose spectacles, reading glass, universal ring dial, plane table and alidade, graphometer, two Platonic solids (octahedron, dodecahedron). E. Culpeper Sculp. London. (Calv. 106)

Copy of clay liver used for divination, original from Babylon, 2050-1750 BCE

Classical & Medieval Medicine

2050-1750 BCE

Babylonian clay liver used for divination, c.2050-1750 BC, copy, 1981

This is a plano-convex diamond lens set in a gold

Microscopes

1725-1735

This is a plano-convex diamond lens set in a gold tiepin, and almost certainly the first such ever made. Diamond lens, imperfectly cut, in gold mount, with chain, made by Andrew Pritchard, c. 1730, London. N.B. Small separate disc with lens in Black and white photograph is believed to be 1927 - 377. (AW)

Hadley's Gregorian reflecting telescope, c.1740

Astronomy

1740-1744

Gregorian reflecting telescope, said to have made by John Hadley in 1726, although stylistic features would suggest a later date of c.1740. The telescope has a 2-inch metal speculum mirror with a focal length of 14 inches and a sharkskin covered brass tube with metal case.

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

Water Transport

1706-1730

Contemporary model, scale 1:70, of 90-gun, 2nd-rate, man-of-war naval vessel, unrigged, built to the 1706 Establishment (naval specification), unsigned, English, 1706-1730. The model formerly belonged to Daniel Finch (1647-1730), First Lord of the British Admiralty (1681-4).

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

Wellcome Medals

1714

Circular silver medal, commemorates the deliverance of the City of Hamburg from plague, rainbow on reverse, German, possibly 1714

Ornamental turning 'rose-engine' lathe, Germany, c. 1740

Hand and Machine Tools

1740

Ornamental turning 'rose-engine' lathe, oak wood base, superstructure, automation mechanism fixed to underside of base, and flywheel fixed to top of superstructure, with both the lathe and superstructure fixed to oak wood base, unsigned, Germany, c. 1740

Automation mechanism, for ornamental turning 'rose-engine' lathe

Hand and Machine Tools

1740

Automation mechanism, for ornamental turning 'rose-engine' lathe, unsigned, German, c. 1740

English celestial globe with Sun and Moon arms, 1747

Astronomy

1747

Celestial globe 3-inch on brass stand by Richard Cushee, London, 1747.

Wooden printing press

Printing & Writing

1701-1734

Wooden hand-operated printing press, differing little from that of the early Caxton press, 1701-1734. Reputedly used from the workshop where Benjamin Franklin worked as a journeyman printer.

Culpeper Compound microscope, with accessories, by Scarlett

Microscopes

1735-1745

Scarlett-Culpeper Compound microscope, with accessories, London, England, c. 1740.

Allen & Hanburys Limited

1715

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

F. Casartel, alcohol thermometer, 1720-1750

Meteorology

1720-1750

Alcohol thermometer in wooden glazed case by F. Casartel, Amsterdam, Holland, 1720 to 1750. Scale plate marked with Fahrenheit and Florentine divisions.

Islamic horary quadrant, 1727-1728

Astronomy

1727-1728

Persian wooden horary quadrant (15 cm radius), with painted scales and compass in leather case, by Muhammad Abd al-Hadi-Safadi and dated AH 1140 (1727-8).

Acupuncture training model, China, 1725-1730

Asian Medicine

1725-1730

Acupuncture training model, with bronze acupuncture figure, in silk covered box bearing text of an Imperial decree of Yung Chen, China, c. 1727

Italian draw-tube refracting telescope with stand, 1701-1730

Astronomy

1701-1730

Italian draw-tube refracting telescope, on altazimuth wooden stand 17th-18th century.

Rose engine lathe

Hand and Machine Tools

c.1740

Rose engine lathe, Lord Macclesfield, about 1740

Whole model of battleship HMS 'Captain'

Water Transport

1708-1714

Contemporary model, 1:60 scale, of HMS ‘Captain’ built 1708 to the 1706 Establishment (naval specification), a 70-gun, 3rd-rate, man-of-war navel vessel, without rigging or masts with cut-away to show construction, built by William Hammond, shipwright at Portsmouth naval dockyard, 1714. The 'Captain', was involved in the defeat of the Spanish fleet off Cape Passaro with the British forces commanded by Admiral Sir George Byng.

Wooden backstaff

Navigation

1730; 1967

Wooden backstaff or Davis quadrant made by John Gilbert on Tower Hill, London, England in 1730 for Thomas Wells. The navigational instrument is fitted with boxwood circular scales (30°arc 0-25, 60°arc 0-65 & 0.5’ divisions), signed ivory insert and decorative stars are stamped on the frame and arcs. The backstaff is fitted with a replacement Flamsteed Lens and a shadow vane made in the Science Museum workshops in 1967 (copied from Inv. No.1908-158).

Trade card for James Ayscough, optician, London, England, 1749-1750

.Unattributed

1749-1750

Trade card: James Ayscough, at the Great Golden Spectacles, in Ludgate -Street, near St. Paul's, London. optician. (Calv. 18) 13 1/2 x 8 in.; 343 x 203 mm

model experimental cart

King George III

1753

Model experimental cart with six wheels, maker unknown, before 1753.

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

Textiles Machinery

1732

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.

Steel Mill used with Flint for Mine Lighting, 1730-1750

Mining & Ore Dressing

1730-1750

Steel mill formerly used with a flint by the colliers of N. England to give light in places subject to fire-damp, pre 1865

Altazimuth theodolite, British, 1725-1747

Surveying

1725-1747

Altazimuth theodolite, 4 1/2-inch, by Jonathan Sisson, Styrand, London, England, 1725-1747

Mummy of a crocodile, Egypt, 2000-1001 BCE

Classical & Medieval Medicine

2000-1001 BCE

Mummified crocodile, no provenance, Egyptian, 2000-1001 BCE.

Small pocket globe, in fish-skin case

Astronomy

1702-1740

Small pocket globe, in fish-skin case, by John Senex, London, England, 1702-1740

Glass bell, with suspension ring

King George III

1750

Glass bell, with suspension ring

Pocket Watch in Pinchbeck case by Tompion and Banger, 1701-1750

Time Measurement

1701-1750

Verge watch in pinchbeck pair case by Thomas Tompion and Edward Banger, no.3435

Burbidges and Company Limited Burgoyne

1741

1741-1980s?, manufacturing chemist, London England

Terrestrial globe by John Senex

Astronomy

1738

Twelve-inch terrestrial globe made by John Senex, Fleet Street, London, 1738. Inscribed: ‘A new and correct Globe of the Earth together with a view of the general and coasting trade winds, monsoons etc. Laid down according to the newest discoveries and from the most exact observations by John Senex, F.R.S. Sold by him at the Globe against St. Dunstans Church in Fleet Street, 1738.’

Boxwood Coggeshall folding slide rule, 1720-1730.

Mathematics

1720-1730

Boxwood Coggeshall rule, folding with slide, (12-inch x 1 1/2-inch) c. 1720-1730

Mathematical models, early 18th century.

Mathematics

1713-1750

Five boxwood mathematical models to illustrate John Keill's course of trigonometry and a part made wooden model of a cube; in a mahogany box

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

Mathematics

1701

Large case of mathematical instruments by D. Lusuerg, Rome, Italy, 1701.

Ivory piston-action syringe, Europe, 1701-1730

Therapeutics

1701-1730

Ivory piston-action syringe, 1701-1730, Europe

Bronze standard wine gallon measure, 1707

Weighing & Measuring

1707

Queen Anne's Bronze standard wine gallon, 1707 (8" x 6 1/4")

Universal pocket sundial

Time Measurement

1701-1721

Universal pocket sundial, silver with gilt hour ring and pin gnomon, diameter 1¾-inches, by Johann Martin, Augsburg, Germany, 1701-1721 (see note).

Barber's shaving bowl

Public Health & Hygiene

1730-1740

Barber's shaving bowl, soft paste porcelain, probably Meissen, German, 1730-1740

Pocket scales with weights

Weighing & Measuring

1727-1745

Pair of pocket scales and fourteen weights, 17th century, by Daniel Thompson, in wooden case, length of beam 5 1/8 ins., sensitivity 0.2 gr

Polemoscope or 'Jealousy Glass', small telescope,

Optics

1725-1735

Polemoscope or 'Jealousy Glass', small telescope, horn with silver ferrule, with screw focussing, diagonal mirror in fishskin case, by Edward Scarlett (?), c. 1730