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Stephenson's Rocket

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1829

Rotative steam engine by Boulton and Watt, 1788

Motive Power

1788

Coalbrookdale by Night by Philippe Jacques de Loutherbourg

Philippe-Jacques de Loutherbourg

1801

Arkwright's Water Frame, 1775

Textiles Machinery

1775

Snuff box, England, 1771-1830

Smoking

1771-1830

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

Clockmakers

1770

'Puffing Billy' locomotive

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1813-1814

Laennec's stethoscope

Clinical Diagnosis

1815-1825

Wooden pocket sundial for use at various latitudes

Time Measurement

1776-1800

Vaginal Speculum for Applying Leeches

Clinical Diagnosis

1801-1830

Arkwright's Water Frame

Textile Industry

1775

The Ready Reckoner' book of tables, c 1826.

Mathematics

c.1826

Arkwright's prototype spinning machine, 1769.

Textiles Machinery

1769

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

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1825

Edward Jenner's lancets

Public Health & Hygiene

1801-1823

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

Smoking

1801-1830

Davy Safety lamp

Mining & Ore Dressing

before 1815

Reflecting telescope by William Herschel

Astronomy

1783-1785

Moon globe by John Russell;England;1797

Astronomy

1797

Caroline Herschel's telescope, 1795-1816

Astronomy

1795-1825

Original preparation of quinine by Pelletier and Caveton

Materia Medica & Pharmacology

1820

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

Microscopy (Wellcome)

1826

Sans Pareil

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1829

Old Spitalfields hand loom with jacquard mechanism

Textiles Machinery

1810

Hindley's pyrometer and three expansion tubes made by Henry Hindley

King George III

1752

Pivoted-detent escapement watch by John Arnold

Clockmakers

1776

Theodolite used for the Principal Triangulation of Great Britain

Surveying

1791

Maudslay 's Lord Chancellor bench micrometer

Industrial Metrology

1805

'Bell-crank' engine, c. 1799

Motive Power

1795-1805 (original)

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

Textiles Machinery

1830

Hack saw

James Watt's Garret Workshop

1790-1819

Refracting telescope with achromatic lens, made by the Dollond family

Optics

1760-1775

Phrenological head

Psychology, Psychiatry & Anthropometry

1821

Marine chronometer by John Arnold and Son, 1787-1799

Time Measurement

1787-1799

Flintlock tinder pistol

Smoking

1780-1830

Sextant by Jesse Ramsden

Astronomy

c. 1772

Shutt End Colliery Railway steam locomotive 'Agenoria'

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1829

Marine chronometer by John Arnold and Son

Clockmakers

1795

Reducing sculpture copying machine

James Watt's Garret Workshop

1790-1819

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

William Combe

1820

Wax anatomical figure of reclining woman

Anatomy & Pathology

1771-1800

Copy of Chamberlen obstetric forceps

Obstetrics, Gynaecology & Contraception

1813

Silver microscope by George Adams, c. 1761.

Microscopes

1763

Oersted Compass Needle, 1828

Science Teaching

1828

Atmospheric Engine by John Smeaton, 1772

Motive Power

1772 (original); 1919 (model)

Watt's end measuring machine

Industrial Metrology

1776

The Rev Dr Priestley's House and Elaboratory

William Ellis

1792

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

Hannah Humphrey

1802

Mrs. Sage

.Unattributed

1785

Terrestrial Globe by George Adams

King George III

1766