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Arkwright's water frame, 1775.

Textiles Machinery

1775

Rotative steam engine by Boulton and Watt, 1788.

Motive Power

1788

Dental pelican for tooth pulling

Dentistry

1701-1800

Small orrery by Benjamin Martin

Astronomy

1738-1777
1749-1823, physician; surgeon; pioneer of smallpox vaccination, British; English

Jenner, Edward

1749 - 1823

Orrery made for the Earl of Orrery

Astronomy

1712-1713

Arkwright's Water Frame

Textile Industry

1775

George III's philosophical table

King George III

1761-1762

Glass female urinal, Europe, 1701-1800

Public Health & Hygiene

1701-1800

Mrs. Sage

.Unattributed

1785

Dental key

Dentistry

1725-1780

Rawhide bag for storing cinchona bark

Materia Medica & Pharmacology

1777-1785

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

Demainbray's Newcomen engine model

King George III

1720

Orrery by Thomas Wright

King George III

1735-1745

Lancet owned by Edward Jenner

Public Health & Hygiene

1720-1800

Culpeper microscope

Microscopy (Wellcome)

1738

Silver microscope by George Adams, c. 1761.

Microscopes

1763

Wax anatomical figure of reclining woman

Anatomy & Pathology

1771-1800

Marine timekeeper known as 'H5' by John Harrison and Son 1770

Clockmakers

1770

Moon globe by John Russell;England;1797

Astronomy

1797

Camera obscura

King George III

1701-1752

Reflecting telescope by William Herschel

Astronomy

1783-1785

Pedometer by Spencer & Perkins

Surveying

1775-1794

Section of lightning conductor from St Paul’s cathedral

Geophysics

1769

Pill tile with four short legs

Pharmacy-ware

1701-1800

Ivory dildo, possibly French, 1701-1800

Therapeutics

1701-1800
1800-1890, social reformer; civil servant, British

Chadwick, Sir Edwin

1800 - 1890

Sextant by Jesse Ramsden

Astronomy

c. 1772

Edmund Culpeper

Edmund Culpeper

1720

Anamorphosis Painting of Perspective View of a Ship Model

Willem van de Velde

1744-1774

Model of William Murdock's Oscillating Engine, 1785.

Motive Power

1785

Ornamental turning 'rose-engine' lathe

Hand and Machine Tools

1740

Chatelaine, England, 1701-1800

Public Health & Hygiene

1701-1800

Cash sword of coins for protecting new born baby from harmful spirits

Asian Medicine

1701-1800

Watt's end measuring machine

Industrial Metrology

1776

Model of a 28 gun frigate

Water Transport

1770-1780

George III's Magdeburg hemispheres

King George III

1761

Terrestrial Globe by George Adams

King George III

1766

Demainbray's scioptric ball

King George III

1745-1755

Wax male anatomical figure

Anatomy & Pathology

1750-1774

Ogee moulding plane

Hand and Machine Tools

1704-1728

Albarello drug jar used for cinchona bark

Medical Ceramic-ware

1731-1770

Smellie-type obstetrical forceps

Obstetrics, Gynaecology & Contraception

1701-1800

Tobacco jar carved in the form of human skull and snake

Smoking

1701-1800

Clay tobacco pipe, maker unknown, made in England,

Smoking

1730-1770

Demainbray's compound microscope

Microscopes

1745

Barber's chair modified for dental extractions

Dentistry

1701-1800