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Model wagon, horse-drawn quarry truck

Railway Models

1730
Large orrery on pedestal base with with gilded horse head decorations beneath the calendar ring and glazed cover, original maker unknown, enlarged by Thomas Wright, Fleet Street, London, 1733. Inscribed 'All the Machinery of this instrument was made new in 1733 by Tho Wright Instrument maker to His MAJESTY GEORGE II'.

George II's Grand Orrery

King George III

1733

Medal commemorating Laura Maria Caterina Bassi, Italy, 1732

Wellcome Medals

1732

Oil jar, Egypt, 1580-1350BCE

Classical & Medieval Medicine

2000-1350 BCE

Machina Coelestis, or the Great Orrery...

Clement Lemprière

1730

Wooden backstaff

Navigation

1730; 1967
Remains of the models of silk machinery introduced from Italy by Sir Thomas Lombe, Derby, England, c. 1732; the remains being: a reel, three spindles with bobbins and flyers and a segment of a circular frame, all half size.

Remains of the models of silk machinery introduced by Sir Thomas Lombe

Textiles Machinery

1732

Square pavement brick from Babylonia (Southern Iraq), 2nd millennium BC.

Building Construction

2000-1001 BCE

Jonathan Sisson

.Unattributed

1735

Mummy of a peregrine falcon, Egypt, 2000-1001 BCE

Classical & Medieval Medicine

2000-1001 BCE

Powder-Tester (c. 1730), by GLEEVE. Brass barrel m

Experimental Chemistry

1730

Microscope (c.1730), by EDMUND CULPEPER. Tripod le

Microscopes

1730

Straight, cylindrical urethral sound with flat han

Surgery

1751-188

Mummy of a crocodile, Egypt, 2000-1001 BCE

Classical & Medieval Medicine

2000-1001 BCE

Spy Glass (c.1730) ivory with screw focus

Optics

1730

Culpeper-Wilson compound microcope, made by Edmund

Microscopes

1730
Gold memento mori finger ring, with 1 transparent stone containing image of a skull, set in a square setting with champleve enamel inscription on band, 1735

Memento mori ring

Wellcome (general)

1735

Analemmatic sundial for latitude 52[o]

Time Measurement

1732

Yard measure, engraved: "Navy Office Deptford 1730"

Weighing & Measuring

1730

Pocket surgical instrument set in 3-fold leather c

Surgery

1803-876

Veterinary fleam, three blades, silver handle with

Veterinary Medicine

1733

Coal bushel, George II, 1730

Weighing & Measuring

1730
Metal ring, circular, set with 1 transparent square stone, the band bears a champleve enamel inscription, 1735

Ring

Wellcome (general)

1735
Metal momento mori finger ring, set with 1 square transparent stone containing a skull, band bears champleve inscription, 1735

Memento mori ring

Wellcome (general)

1735

Microscope (c.1730), by SCARLETT. Culpeper type, o

Microscopes

1730

Microscope (c.1730), signed E. CULPEPER LONDINI. W

Microscopes

1730

Microscope (c.1730), signed ED SCARLETT LONDON. Wi

Microscopes

1730

Microscope, in cylindrical boxwood case inscribed

Microscopes

1732

Wooden backstaff.

Astronomy

1733

Squat bronze mortar, 4 bulbous moulded ribs altern

Pharmacy-ware

1730

Miniature spyglass telescope with boxwood case

Optics

1725-1735.

Memorial stele to the doorkeepr Ruma

Classical & Medieval Medicine

2000-1001 BCE
Metal memento mori finger ring, set with transparent stone with a skull underneath, champleve inscription on band, 1731

Memento mori ring

Wellcome (general)

1731

Shaving bowl

Public Health & Hygiene

1730
A carpenter's moulding plane; dated 1733.

A carpenter's moulding plane; dated 1733.

Hand and Machine Tools

1733

Straight spectacles, steel frame, English, 1750-18

Ophthalmology

1750-1730
Metal memento mori finger ring, very small, possibly for a bably, a square transparent stone, band bears inscription in champleve enamelling

Memento mori ring

Wellcome (general)

1734

Surgical etui, c. 1730

Surgery

1730

Spherical metal case only, possibly for a goa ston

Ethnography and Folk Medicine

1751-190

Shang Dynasty sacrificial bowl

Asian Medicine

1766-1122 BCE

Clay figure of animal

Classical & Medieval Medicine

2000-1000 BCE

Trade card: Henry de Leth

.Unattributed

1735

Trade card: Thomas Page

.Unattributed

1735
1735-1803, inventor; mechanic; mathematical instrument maker, Dutch

Merlin, John Joseph

1735 - 1803
1734-1797, artist; painter, English

Wright of Derby, Joseph

1734 - 1797
1731-1793, natural philosopher (scientist), inventor, English, British

Six, James

1731 - 1793
1735-1800, active 1762-1800, mathematical instrument maker; optician; author, British; English

Ramsden, Jesse

1735 - 1800
1730-1819, artist; medallist, French

Duvivier, Pierre Simon Benjamin

1730 - 1819
1732-1792, inventor of cotton-spinning machinery and cotton manufacturer, English; British

Arkwright, Sir Richard

1732 - 1792
1735-1816, ironmaster; philanthropist, British; English

Reynolds, Richard

1735 - 1816