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Pedometer by Spencer & Perkins

Surveying

1775-1794

Silver vinaigrette with hinged lid

Pharmacy-ware

1809

Barrel and Device from George III's guinea and feather' apparatus

King George III

1761

Infant feeding bottle, Europe, 1701-1800

Nursing & Hospital Furnishings

1771-1800

Brass quadrant by Peter and John Dollond of 18-inch radius with optical sights on a tripod

Astronomy

1780-1820

Pocket microscope by Jeremiah Sisson

Microscopes

1752

Mechanical Powers Apparatus

King George III

1775-1800

Oval enamelled box, England, 1761-1820

Smoking

1761-1820

Electrical chimes by George Adams

King George III

1781-1790

Part of electrostatic telegraph, 1816

Telecommunications

1816

Sand glass in four pillared wooden mount

Time Measurement

1750-1800

Thin-walled square glass bottle

King George III

1761

Ebony and brass octant.

Astronomy

1777-1810

Wax male anatomical figure

Anatomy & Pathology

1776-1780

Demainbray's optical model

King George III

1752

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

Orthopaedics

1795-1820

Chemical Lectures

Thomas Rowlandson

c.1810

Altazimuth theodolite

Surveying

1755-1765

Leber-pattern dental forceps

Dentistry

1770-1800

Stipple-engraved portrait of Benjamin Martin

R Page

1815

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

Julius Caesar Ibbetson

1785-1790

George III's pendulum

King George III

1762

Demainbray's Irish low-backed cart model

King George III

1735-1754.

Wooden figure of man practising moxibustion

Asian Medicine

1750-1800

George III's weighted cylinder

King George III

1762

George III's cycloidal pendulum

King George III

1762

Silver pill box, Birmingham, England, 1797

Wellcome (general)

1797

Model of Hooke's universal joint

King George III

1760
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

George III's double-barrelled air pump

King George III

1761

cylinder electrical machine, 1810-1817

Telecommunications

1810-1817

King George III's central forces machine

King George III

1762

George III's Magdeburg hemispheres

King George III

1761

Demainbray's four wheeled wagon model

King George III

1751

Dial micrometer, 1760-1772.

King George III

1760-1772

Cylindrical condensing chamber

King George III

1761

Verge watch in Staffordshire enamelled case by Ann Phillips

Clockmakers

1790

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

Clockmakers

1770

Steel dental key, England, 1771-1800

Dentistry

1771-1800

'Early 'perpetuelle' watch by Abraham-Louis Breguet

Clockmakers

1783

George III's clockwork bell

King George III

1761

Beam compass by George Adams

King George III

1775-1795

George III's inclined plane and Horse-way

King George III

1762

Pivoted-detent escapement watch by John Arnold 1776-7

Clockmakers

1776

Pivoted-detent escapement watch by Larcum Kendall 1786-7

Clockmakers

1786

Marine chronometer by John Arnold and Son

Clockmakers

1795

Copy of Chamberlen obstetric forceps

Obstetrics, Gynaecology & Contraception

1813

Hydrostatic balance by Jesse Ramsden, London, 1785-1789

Experimental Chemistry

1785-1789

Ready reckoner for ship's cargoes

Mathematics

1807

Wax male figure showing the muscles of the body

Anatomy & Pathology

1776-1780