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Stephenson's Rocket

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1829

Arkwright's water frame, 1775.

Textiles Machinery

1775

'Puffing Billy' locomotive

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1813-1814

Rotative steam engine by Boulton and Watt, 1788.

Motive Power

1788

Shutt End Colliery Railway steam locomotive 'Agenoria'

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1829

Coalbrookdale by Night

Philippe-Jacques de Loutherbourg

1801

Laennec's stethoscope

Clinical Diagnosis

1815-1825

Sans Pareil

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1829

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

Smoking

1801-1830

Wax anatomical model of a female showing internal organs, Florence, Italy, 1818

Anatomy & Pathology

1818
1749-1823, physician; surgeon; pioneer of smallpox vaccination, British; English

Jenner, Edward

1749 - 1823

Phrenological head

Psychology, Psychiatry & Anthropometry

1821

Caroline Herschel's telescope, 1795-1816

Astronomy

1795-1825

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

Microscopy (Wellcome)

1826
1818-1865, physician, Hungarian

Semmelweis, Ignaz Philipp

1818 - 1865

Reflecting telescope by William Herschel

Astronomy

1783-1785

Magnetic toy by George Adams

King George III

1765

Old Spitalfields hand loom with jacquard mechanism

Textiles Machinery

1810

Mrs. Sage

.Unattributed

1785

Stanhope square demonstrator, c.1805.

Mathematics

c.1805

Silver microscope by George Adams, c. 1761.

Microscopes

1763

Maudslay 's Lord Chancellor bench micrometer

Industrial Metrology

1805

Theodolite used for the Principal Triangulation of Great Britain

Surveying

1791

Edward Jenner's lancets

Public Health & Hygiene

1801-1823

Arkwright's prototype spinning machine, 1769.

Textiles Machinery

1769

Arkwright's Water Frame

Textile Industry

1775

Ornate circumcision knife with ivory handle

Surgery

1775-1785

Vaginal speculum for applying leeches

Clinical Diagnosis

1801-1830

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

Thomas Rowlandson

1820

Portable spinning wheel, labelled 'James Webster,

Textiles Machinery

1745-1790

Trevithick's model road locomotive engine

Road Transport

1796-1802

Snuff box, England, 1771-1830

Smoking

1771-1830
Original screw-cutting lathe, made by Henry Maudslay, end of 18th century

Henry Maudslay's original screw-cutting lathe, c.1800

Hand and Machine Tools

c. 1800

Ornamental turning 'rose-engine' lathe

Hand and Machine Tools

1740

‘Visual glasses’ designed by Benjamin Martin

Optics

1756-1800

Scientific Researches! - New Discoveries in Pneumaticks! - or, an Experimental Lecture on the Powers of Air

Hannah Humphrey

1802

Model of a 28 gun frigate

Water Transport

1770-1780

Pocket globe in case by Dudley Adams

Astronomy

1799-1802

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

Textiles Machinery

1830

Small orrery by Benjamin Martin

Astronomy

1738-1777

Section of lightning conductor from St Paul’s cathedral

Geophysics

1769

George III's philosophical table

King George III

1761-1762

Original preparation of quinine

Materia Medica & Pharmacology

1820

Culpeper microscope

Microscopy (Wellcome)

1738

Breast pump, Europe, 1771-1830

Nursing & Hospital Furnishings

1771-1830

Clock used for transit of Venus observations, 1769

Time Measurement

1768-1769

model locomotion no 1

Railway Models

1825

Flintlock tinder pistol

Smoking

1780-1830

Pedometer by Spencer & Perkins

Surveying

1775-1794

George III's double-barrelled air pump

King George III

1761