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Arkwright's water frame, 1775.

Textiles Machinery

1775

Rotative steam engine by Boulton and Watt, 1788.

Motive Power

1788

Arkwright's Water Frame

Textile Industry

1775

George III's philosophical table

King George III

1761-1762

Mrs. Sage

.Unattributed

1785

Rawhide bag for storing cinchona bark

Materia Medica & Pharmacology

1777-1785

Theodolite used for the Principal Triangulation of Great Britain

Surveying

1791

Arkwright's prototype spinning machine, 1769.

Textiles Machinery

1769

Silver microscope by George Adams, c. 1761.

Microscopes

1763

Wax anatomical figure of reclining woman

Anatomy & Pathology

1771-1800

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

Clockmakers

1770

Moon globe by John Russell;England;1797

Astronomy

1797

Reflecting telescope by William Herschel

Astronomy

1783-1785

Pedometer by Spencer & Perkins

Surveying

1775-1794

Section of lightning conductor from St Paul’s cathedral

Geophysics

1769

Model of William Murdock's Oscillating Engine, 1785.

Motive Power

1785

Watt's end measuring machine

Industrial Metrology

1776

Model of a 28 gun frigate

Water Transport

1770-1780

George III's Magdeburg hemispheres

King George III

1761

Terrestrial Globe by George Adams

King George III

1766

Wax male anatomical figure

Anatomy & Pathology

1750-1774
1800-1890, social reformer; civil servant, British

Chadwick, Sir Edwin

1800 - 1890

Marine chronometer by John Arnold and Son, 1787-1799

Time Measurement

1787-1799

Lunardi's second balloon ascending from St. George's Fields, 1785

Julius Caesar Ibbetson

1785-1790

Tinder pistol

Smoking

1750-1800

George III's clockwork bell

King George III

1761

Portrait of Benjamin Vulliamy (1747 – 1811)

Clockmakers

1770-1800

Pivoted-detent escapement watch by John Arnold 1776-7

Clockmakers

1776

Machine-Screw thread making tool, by Henry Maudslay

Hand and Machine Tools

c.1800

7/8" steel gouge with octagonal hickory handle

James Watt's Garret Workshop

1758-1769

Wooden lathe mandrel for turning of flutes

James Watt's Garret Workshop

1758-1769

‘Visual glasses’ designed by Benjamin Martin

Optics

1756-1800

Filar micrometer by William Herschel, 1780-1800

Astronomy

1780-1800

Stipple-engraved portrait of Margaret Bryan and two children

William Nutter

1797

Refracting telescope with achromatic lens, made by the Dollond family

Optics

1760-1775

Pocket microscope by Jeremiah Sisson

Microscopes

1752

Electrical chimes by George Adams

King George III

1781-1790

Marine chronometer by John Arnold and Son

Clockmakers

1795

Pivoted-detent escapement watch by Larcum Kendall 1786-7

Clockmakers

1786

Demainbray's model of a camera obscura

King George III

1752

Ornate circumcision knife with ivory handle

Surgery

1775-1785

Child's spinal support, Europe, 1771-1800

Orthopaedics

1771-1800

Small screw-cutting device or fusee engine for clock-maker's use

Hand and Machine Tools

c. 1800

Cup and ball toy

Public Health & Hygiene

1750-1800

Uterus, showing placenta, cervix etc. from wax anatomical figure

Anatomy & Pathology

1771-1800
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

Rutherford maximum and minimum thermometer, 1794

Meteorology

1794

Satirical print of a failed balloon launch from Foley House, London in 1784

Paul Sandby

1784

Two Guillotine blades

Wellcome (general)

1790-1794

Wooden tuning key for a stringed instrument

James Watt's Garret Workshop

1758-1769