Arkwright's Water Frame, 1775
1775
Vaginal Speculum for Applying Leeches
1801-1830
Snuff Box, England, 1771-1830
1771-1830
Coalbrookdale by Night by Philippe Jacques de Loutherbourg
1801
Difference Engine No. 1
circa 1832
Rotative Steam Engine by Boulton and Watt, 1788
1788
Marine Timekeeper known as 'H5' by John Harrison and Son 1770
1770
Cubical polyhedral sundial
1751-1800
Sewing machine by Elias Howe
circa 1846
Section of lightning conductor from St Paul’s cathedral
1769
'Memento mori' watch in the form of a skull, known as the 'Mary Queen of Scots' watch.
1780-1850
Early inhaler for ether anaesthesia
1847-1848
Furness Railway steam locomotive 'Coppernob' 0-4-0, No 3, 1846
1846
Rocket locomotive
1829
Isaac Newton’s Reflecting Telescope (replica)
1668; 1924
Hand loom
1825-1835
'Bell-crank' engine, c. 1799
1795-1805 (original)
Cranial trephine
1771-1830
Wheatstone concertina
1829-1851
Cast lead tobacco jar
1790-1860
Thompson's Revolver Camera
1862
Schwann's microscope (no case)
1835
Shutt End Colliery Railway steam locomotive 'Agenoria'
1829
Lunardi's second balloon ascending from St. George's Fields, 1785
1785-1790
Trough battery, 1801-1838
1801-1838
One of the First Rechargeable Batteries, about 1860
1860
Pocket globe in case by Dudley Adams
1799-1802
Windsor mantle clock
1845-1855
Cumulostratus forming; fine weather Cirri above
1849
Distinguished Men of Science
1862
Prototype of the Brougham carriage
1838
Cloth tape measure
1850-1860
Model of the "Planet" Locomotive
1830 (original); 1967 (model)
Skaife's Pistolgraph Camera
1858
Replica of Daguerre-Giroux camera
1839 (original); circa 1988 (replica)
Whitworth Planing Machine
circa 1842
Cammann type binaural stethoscope
1845-1855
Arkwright's Water Frame
1775
Arkwright's prototype spinning machine, 1769.
1769
Refracting telescope with achromatic lens, made by the Dollond family
1760-1775
Theodolite used for the Principal Triangulation of Great Britain
1791
Silver microscope by George Adams, c. 1761.
1763
Phrenological head
1821
Plaster model of the lunar surface
1844
Builder's whole, rigged model, of SS 'Great Eastern', 1853-1857
1853-1857
Watch in a puddingstone, gold and diamond case by John Leroux
1775-1785
Portrait of Isaac Newton
1862-1863
Anatomical Drawing of a Human Skeleton
1840
Nasmyth's Steam Hammer
1845-1855
Silk skirt and blouse dyed with Perkin's mauve aniline dye
1862-1863