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Rotative steam engine by Boulton and Watt, 1788.

Motive Power

1788

Arkwright's water frame, 1775.

Textiles Machinery

1775

Print of Henry Beighton's Engraving of a Newcomen Engine

Motive Power

1717-1725

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

Arkwright's prototype spinning machine, 1769.

Textiles Machinery

1769

Camera obscura

King George III

1701-1752
1749-1823, physician; surgeon; pioneer of smallpox vaccination, British; English

Jenner, Edward

1749 - 1823

Arkwright's Water Frame

Textile Industry

1775

Orrery made for the Earl of Orrery

Astronomy

1712-1713

Moon globe by John Russell;England;1797

Astronomy

1797

Lancet owned by Edward Jenner

Public Health & Hygiene

1720-1800

Demainbray's Newcomen engine model

King George III

1720

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

Clockmakers

1770

Silver microscope by George Adams, c. 1761.

Microscopes

1763

Culpeper microscope

Microscopy (Wellcome)

1738

Theodolite used for the Principal Triangulation of Great Britain

Surveying

1791

Pill tile with four short legs

Pharmacy-ware

1701-1800

Dental key

Dentistry

1725-1780

Ornamental turning 'rose-engine' lathe

Hand and Machine Tools

1740

Portrait of Benjamin Vulliamy (1747 – 1811)

Clockmakers

1770-1800

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

Time Measurement

1715

Watt's end measuring machine

Industrial Metrology

1776

Reflecting telescope by William Herschel

Astronomy

1783-1785

Barber's shaving bowl, Netherlands, 1701-1750

Public Health & Hygiene

1701-1750

George III's philosophical table

King George III

1761-1762

Drug jar for cinchona bark

Medical Ceramic-ware

1701-1730

12 inch architectonic sector in ivory and silver,

Mathematics

1733-1795

Ivory dildo, possibly French, 1701-1800

Therapeutics

1701-1800

English glass celestial globe, 1739

Astronomy

1739

Verge watch in Staffordshire enamelled case by Ann Phillips

Clockmakers

1790

Sextant by Jesse Ramsden

Astronomy

c. 1772

Albarello drug jar used for cinchona bark

Medical Ceramic-ware

1731-1770

Ornate circumcision knife with ivory handle

Surgery

1775-1785

Rawhide bag for storing cinchona bark

Materia Medica & Pharmacology

1777-1785

Marine chronometer by John Arnold and Son, 1787-1799

Time Measurement

1787-1799

Model of William Murdock's Oscillating Engine, 1785.

Motive Power

1785

Anamorphosis Painting of Perspective View of a Ship Model

Willem van de Velde

1744-1774

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

Asian Medicine

1701-1800

Mrs. Sage

.Unattributed

1785

Model of a 28 gun frigate

Water Transport

1770-1780

Electrical chimes by George Adams

King George III

1781-1790

Machine-Screw thread making tool, by Henry Maudslay

Hand and Machine Tools

c.1800

Model diving bell

King George III

before 1753

Smellie-type obstetrical forceps

Obstetrics, Gynaecology & Contraception

1701-1800

Wax anatomical figure of reclining woman

Anatomy & Pathology

1771-1800

George III's cycloidal pendulum

King George III

1762

Refracting telescope with achromatic lens, made by the Dollond family

Optics

1760-1775

Silver vinaigrette in the shape of a skull

Pharmacy-ware

1701-1800