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Stephenson's Rocket

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1829

Rotative steam engine by Boulton and Watt, 1788.

Motive Power

1788

Arkwright's water frame, 1775.

Textiles Machinery

1775

Coalbrookdale by Night

Philippe-Jacques de Loutherbourg

1801

Difference Engine No. 1

Computing & Data Processing

c. 1832

'Puffing Billy' locomotive

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1813-1814

'Memento mori' watch in the form of a skull, known as the 'Mary Queen of Scots' watch.

Clockmakers

1780-1850

Print of Henry Beighton's Engraving of a Newcomen Engine

Motive Power

1717-1725

Voigtlander daguerreotype camera

Photographic Technology

1841

Laennec's stethoscope

Clinical Diagnosis

1815-1825

Dental pelican for tooth pulling

Dentistry

1701-1800

Sewing machine by Elias Howe

Textiles Machinery

c. 1846

Machine used for covering wires with silk and cotton, 1837

Textiles Machinery

1837

Vaginal speculum for applying leeches

Clinical Diagnosis

1801-1830

Water pipe, for smoking opium or tobacco, China, 1801-1830

Smoking

1801-1830

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

Compound microscope used by Joseph Jackson Lister

Microscopy (Wellcome)

1830-1850

Snuff box, England, 1771-1830

Smoking

1771-1830

Camera obscura

King George III

1701-1752

Steam locomotive No. 1 'Locomotion', Stockton & Darlington Railway

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1825

Queen Adelaide's Saloon, NO. 2

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1842

Replica of Daguerre-Giroux camera

Photographic Technology

1839 (original); c. 1988 (replica)

Edward Jenner's lancets

Public Health & Hygiene

1801-1823

Musical transposition calculator, in circular slide-rule format

Mathematics

1820
1749-1823, physician; surgeon; pioneer of smallpox vaccination, British; English

Jenner, Edward

1749 - 1823

Phrenological head

Psychology, Psychiatry & Anthropometry

1821

Joseph Jackson Lister's microscope, London, England, 1826

Microscopy (Wellcome)

1826

Arkwright's Water Frame

Textile Industry

1775

Orrery made for the Earl of Orrery

Astronomy

1712-1713

Palmer's micrometer (replica)

Industrial Metrology

c. 1848

Steam locomotive, entitled Cornwall

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1847

Britannia statue

Fixtures & Fittings from Railway Buildings

1849

Old Spitalfields hand loom with jacquard mechanism

Textiles Machinery

1810

Moon globe by John Russell;England;1797

Astronomy

1797

Bain's chemical telegraph, 1850.

Telecommunications

1850

Lancet owned by Edward Jenner

Public Health & Hygiene

1720-1800

Trevithick's model road locomotive engine

Road Transport

1796-1802

Caroline Herschel's telescope, 1795-1816

Astronomy

1795-1825

Cooke and Wheatstone 5-needle telegraph, 1837

Telecommunications

1837

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

Prototype of the Brougham carriage

Road Transport

1838

Culpeper microscope

Microscopy (Wellcome)

1738

Maudslay 's Lord Chancellor bench micrometer

Industrial Metrology

1805

Trough battery, 1801-1838

Electricity and Magnetism

1801-1838

Theodolite used for the Principal Triangulation of Great Britain

Surveying

1791

Medicine chest owned by Edward Jenner

Materia Medica & Pharmacology

1750-1830