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Wax male figure showing the arteries of the body, Florence, Italy, 1776-1780

Anatomy & Pathology

1776-1780

Amulet against the evil eye in the form of a fish

Ethnography and Folk Medicine

1801-1830

Entrance into Manchester across Water Street

Thomas Talbot Bury

1831

Glass bottle containing unknown white powder

Materia Medica & Pharmacology

1750-1830

Richard Arkwright

Joseph Wright of

1790

Medal commemorating the first manned balloon flights

Coins, Medals & Tokens

1784

Pearwood snuff box stamped with skulls

Psychology, Psychiatry & Anthropometry

1796-1815
1749-1823, physician; surgeon; pioneer of smallpox vaccination, British; English

Jenner, Edward

1749 - 1823

model steam locomotive

Railway Models

1826

Model of Brunel's cotton winding machine.

Textiles Machinery

1800-1802

Tin can used for the early preservation of food

Hand and Machine Tools

1812

Square signed "J.Ramsden, 1757"

Mathematics

1757

Wooden figure of man practising moxibustion

Asian Medicine

1750-1800

Portion of the first submarine cable between Dover and Calais, 1850

Telecommunications

1850

Schwann's microscope

Microscopes

1835

Plaque showing the development of a human embryo

Obstetrics, Gynaecology & Contraception

1801-1830

One screw eye

James Watt's Garret Workshop

1790-1819

Vaginal speculum

Clinical Diagnosis

1801-1850

Silver pill box, Birmingham, England, 1797

Wellcome (general)

1797

Wheatstone ABC telegraph receiver, 1942

Telecommunications

1842

Model of Hooke's universal joint

King George III

1760

Two lancets in a patterned silver case

Therapeutics

1844

Three circular saw blades

James Watt's Garret Workshop

1758-1773

George III's double-barrelled air pump

King George III

1761

Dial micrometer, 1760-1772.

King George III

1760-1772

One watch glass

James Watt's Garret Workshop

1790-1819

George III's Magdeburg hemispheres

King George III

1761

Insulators used for Morse's telegraph, 1835

Telecommunications

1835

Wax plaque showing a dissected female figure

Obstetrics, Gynaecology & Contraception

1801-1830

Mechanical tobacco box, England, 1770-1830

Smoking

1770-1830

Pharmacy jar for bugloss

Medical Ceramic-ware

1725-1775

Wax male figure showing the muscles and bones of the body, Florence, Italy, 1776-1780

Anatomy & Pathology

1776-1780

Silver snuff boxes, United Kingdom, presented in 1832 and 1850

Smoking

1832

plaster cast of hand

James Watt's Garret Workshop

1790-1819

Head joint from flute

James Watt's Garret Workshop

1758-1769

Cooke and Wheatstone's ABC telegraph transmitter

Telecommunications

1840

Wax plaque showing a dissected female figure

Obstetrics, Gynaecology & Contraception

1801-1830

Six Bramah lock drilling templates, on pine (wood) board

Hand and Machine Tools

c.1795

Box containing grey powder, labelled 'clock silvering'

James Watt's Garret Workshop

1790-1819

Steel bradawl with turned badly split wood handle

James Watt's Garret Workshop

1758-1819

Brass casting, roughly cylindrical, three sinkings in surface

James Watt's Garret Workshop

1782

Jar: “Mercury”, in urn shaped brown jar

James Watt's Garret Workshop

1790-1819

Three knurling tools

James Watt's Garret Workshop

1790-1819

model manchester & leeds railway carriage

Railway Models

1839

Long piece of tube, zig zag on end

James Watt's Garret Workshop

1790-1819

Sample of submarine cable laid between Dover and Calais, 1850

Telecommunications

1850

Barometer printing plate, inscribed " I.Watt Glasgow"

James Watt's Garret Workshop

1756-1757

'Old Age' statue, Staffordshire, England, 1801-1830

Orthopaedics

1801-1830

Wax plaque of woman showing foetus in the womb

Obstetrics, Gynaecology & Contraception

1801-1830

Sand glass in four pillared wooden mount

Time Measurement

1750-1800