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Rotative steam engine by Boulton and Watt, 1788

Motive Power

1788

Arkwright's Water Frame, 1775

Textiles Machinery

1775

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

Clockmakers

1770

Arkwright's Water Frame

Textile Industry

1775

Dental Pelican for Tooth Pulling

Dentistry

1701-1800

Glass female urinal, Europe, 1701-1800

Public Health & Hygiene

1701-1800

Print of Henry Beighton's Engraving of a Newcomen Engine

Motive Power

1717-1725

Arkwright's prototype spinning machine, 1769.

Textiles Machinery

1769

Camera Obscura

King George III

1701-1752

Small orrery by Benjamin Martin

Astronomy

1738-1777

Ivory dildo, possibly French, 1701-1800

Therapeutics

1701-1800

Orrery made for the Earl of Orrery

Astronomy

1712-1713

Lancet owned by Edward Jenner

Public Health & Hygiene

1720-1800

Marine chronometer by John Arnold and Son, 1787-1799

Time Measurement

1787-1799

Theodolite used for the Principal Triangulation of Great Britain

Surveying

1791

Machine-Screw thread making tool, by Henry Maudslay

Hand and Machine Tools

c.1800

Refracting telescope with achromatic lens, made by the Dollond family

Optics

1760-1775

Watt's end measuring machine

Industrial Metrology

1776

‘Visual glasses’ designed by Benjamin Martin

Optics

1756-1800

Reflecting telescope by William Herschel

Astronomy

1783-1785

'Haystack' Boiler, 1775-1799

Motive Power

1775-1799 (original); 1900-1907 (model)

Clock movement for Shelton regulator clock

Time Measurement

1768-1769

Ornamental turning 'rose-engine' lathe

Hand and Machine Tools

1740

Culpeper microscope

Microscopy (Wellcome)

1738

Barograph clock by Alexander Cumming

Time Measurement

1766

Demainbray's Newcomen engine model

King George III

1720

Hindley's pyrometer

King George III

1752

Pill tile with four short legs

Pharmacy-ware

1701-1800

Silver microscope by George Adams, c. 1761.

Microscopes

1763

Tobacco jar in the shape of a skull

Smoking

1701-1800

Smellie-type obstetrical forceps

Obstetrics, Gynaecology & Contraception

1701-1800

Moon globe by John Russell;England;1797

Astronomy

1797

Longcase clock signed James Harrison, brother of John Harrison

Clockmakers

1728

Atmospheric Engine by John Smeaton, 1772

Motive Power

1772 (original); 1919 (model)

George III's philosophical table

King George III

1761-1762

Sheraton medicine chest, Europe, 1720-1800

Materia Medica & Pharmacology

1720-1800

Chatelaine, England, 1701-1800

Public Health & Hygiene

1701-1800

Mrs. Sage

.Unattributed

1785

Sextant by Jesse Ramsden

Astronomy

c. 1772

Wax male anatomical figure

Anatomy & Pathology

1750-1774

Two Guillotine blades

Wellcome (general)

1790-1794

Model of a 28 gun frigate

Water Transport

1770-1780

Wax anatomical figure of reclining woman

Anatomy & Pathology

1771-1800

Section of lightning conductor from St Paul’s cathedral

Geophysics

1769

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

Clockmakers

1710

Dental key

Dentistry

1725-1780

George III's cycloidal pendulum

King George III

1762

Celestial globe by George Adams

King George III

1766

Thin-walled square glass bottle

King George III

1761

Orrery by Thomas Wright

King George III

1735-1745