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Stephenson's Rocket

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1829

Rotative steam engine by Boulton and Watt, 1788

Motive Power

1788

Snuff box, England, 1771-1830

Smoking

1771-1830

Coalbrookdale by Night

Philippe-Jacques de Loutherbourg

1801

Arkwright's Water Frame, 1775

Textiles Machinery

1775

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

Clockmakers

1770

'Puffing Billy' locomotive

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1813-1814

Vaginal Speculum for Applying Leeches

Clinical Diagnosis

1801-1830

Arkwright's Water Frame

Textile Industry

1775

Sans Pareil

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1829

Laennec's stethoscope

Clinical Diagnosis

1815-1825

Arkwright's prototype spinning machine, 1769.

Textiles Machinery

1769

Small orrery by Benjamin Martin

Astronomy

1738-1777

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

Smoking

1801-1830

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

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1825

Edward Jenner's lancets

Public Health & Hygiene

1801-1823

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

Microscopy (Wellcome)

1826

Phrenological head

Psychology, Psychiatry & Anthropometry

1821

Maudslay 's Lord Chancellor bench micrometer

Industrial Metrology

1805

Davy Safety lamp

Mining & Ore Dressing

before 1815

Marine chronometer by John Arnold and Son, 1787-1799

Time Measurement

1787-1799

Theodolite used for the Principal Triangulation of Great Britain

Surveying

1791

Caroline Herschel's telescope, 1795-1816

Astronomy

1795-1825

Machine-Screw thread making tool, by Henry Maudslay

Hand and Machine Tools

c.1800

Double-dialled longcase clock from Park Green Mill

Time Measurement

1800-1820

Refracting telescope with achromatic lens, made by the Dollond family

Optics

1760-1775

Original preparation of quinine

Materia Medica & Pharmacology

1820

Old Spitalfields hand loom with jacquard mechanism

Textiles Machinery

1810

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

Shutt End Colliery Railway steam locomotive 'Agenoria'

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1829

Copy of Chamberlen obstetric forceps

Obstetrics, Gynaecology & Contraception

1813

Ornamental turning 'rose-engine' lathe

Hand and Machine Tools

1740

'Dr Syntax and his wife making an experiment in pneumatics', print, London, England, 1820

William Combe

1820

Culpeper microscope

Microscopy (Wellcome)

1738

Barograph clock by Alexander Cumming

Time Measurement

1766

Hindley's pyrometer

King George III

1752

Silver microscope by George Adams, c. 1761.

Microscopes

1763

Moon globe by John Russell;England;1797

Astronomy

1797

Richard Grindall's combined knife and fork, Europe, 1795-1820

Orthopaedics

1795-1820

Atmospheric Engine by John Smeaton, 1772

Motive Power

1772 (original); 1919 (model)

Iron mortsafe lid

Anatomy & Pathology

1801-1822

Copy of Thimonnier's chain-stitch sewing machine, 1830.

Textiles Machinery

1830

George III's philosophical table

King George III

1761-1762

Ebony and brass octant.

Astronomy

1777-1810

The Ready Reckoner' book of tables, c 1826.

Mathematics

c.1826

Alidade for plane table outfit

Surveying

1801-1830