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Arkwright's water frame, 1775.

Textiles Machinery

1775

Rotative steam engine by Boulton and Watt, 1788.

Motive Power

1788

Terrestrial Globe by George Adams

King George III

1766

Dental pelican for tooth pulling

Dentistry

1701-1800

Small orrery by Benjamin Martin

Astronomy

1738-1777

Glass female urinal, Europe, 1701-1800

Public Health & Hygiene

1701-1800
1749-1823, physician; surgeon; pioneer of smallpox vaccination, British; English

Jenner, Edward

1749 - 1823

Reflecting telescope by William Herschel

Astronomy

1783-1785

Orrery made for the Earl of Orrery

Astronomy

1712-1713

Ivory dildo, possibly French, 1701-1800

Therapeutics

1701-1800

Camera obscura

King George III

1701-1752

Arkwright's Water Frame

Textile Industry

1775

Print of Henry Beighton's Engraving of a Newcomen Engine

Motive Power

1717-1725

Theodolite used for the Principal Triangulation of Great Britain

Surveying

1791

Arkwright's prototype spinning machine, 1769.

Textiles Machinery

1769

Lancet owned by Edward Jenner

Public Health & Hygiene

1720-1800

George III's philosophical table

King George III

1761-1762

Dental key

Dentistry

1725-1780

Demainbray's Newcomen engine model

King George III

1720

Moon globe by John Russell;England;1797

Astronomy

1797
1800-1890, social reformer; civil servant, British

Chadwick, Sir Edwin

1800 - 1890

Copying desk, with lock and key and felt on mahogany board

Printing & Writing

1780-1800

Silver microscope by George Adams, c. 1761.

Microscopes

1763

Pair-cased pocket watch

Time Measurement

1705-1737

Mrs. Sage

.Unattributed

1785

Wax anatomical figure of reclining woman

Anatomy & Pathology

1771-1800

George III's double-barrelled air pump

King George III

1761

Posset pot with lid

Nursing & Hospital Furnishings

1701-1800

Ornate circumcision knife with ivory handle

Surgery

1775-1785

Sextant by Jesse Ramsden

Astronomy

c. 1772

Altazimuth theodolite

Surveying

1755-1765

Model of Sun and Planet Gearing

Motive Power

1782-1784

Section of lightning conductor from St Paul’s cathedral

Geophysics

1769

Celestial globe by George Adams

King George III

1766

Model of a 28 gun frigate

Water Transport

1770-1780

‘Visual glasses’ designed by Benjamin Martin

Optics

1756-1800

Ornamental turning 'rose-engine' lathe

Hand and Machine Tools

1740

Petit's type tourniquet

Surgery

1701-1800

Silver vinaigrette in the shape of a skull

Pharmacy-ware

1701-1800

Infant feeding bottle, Germany, 1701-1800

Nursing & Hospital Furnishings

1701-1800

Demainbray's four wheeled wagon model

King George III

1751

Barograph clock by Alexander Cumming

Time Measurement

1766

Smellie-type obstetrical forceps

Obstetrics, Gynaecology & Contraception

1701-1800

Chatelaine, England, 1701-1800

Public Health & Hygiene

1701-1800

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

Classical & Medieval Medicine

2050-1750 BCE

Watt's end measuring machine

Industrial Metrology

1776

Lunardi's second balloon ascending from St. George's Fields, 1785

Julius Caesar Ibbetson

1785-1790

George III's compound engine

King George III

1762

Pedometer by Spencer & Perkins

Surveying

1775-1794

Model of Hooke's universal joint

King George III

1760