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Coalbrookdale by Night

Philippe-Jacques de Loutherbourg

1801

Arkwright's water frame, 1775.

Textiles Machinery

1775

Vaginal speculum for applying leeches

Clinical Diagnosis

1801-1830

Rotative steam engine by Boulton and Watt, 1788.

Motive Power

1788

'Puffing Billy' locomotive

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1813-1814

Stephenson's Rocket

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1829

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

Smoking

1801-1830

Laennec's stethoscope

Clinical Diagnosis

1815-1825

Silver microscope by George Adams, c. 1761.

Microscopes

1763

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

Microscopy (Wellcome)

1826

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

Anatomy & Pathology

1818

Watt's end measuring machine

Industrial Metrology

1776

Wax anatomical figure of reclining woman

Anatomy & Pathology

1771-1800

Moon globe by John Russell;England;1797

Astronomy

1797

Theodolite used for the Principal Triangulation of Great Britain

Surveying

1791

Edward Jenner's lancets

Public Health & Hygiene

1801-1823

Shutt End Colliery Railway steam locomotive 'Agenoria'

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1829

Sans Pareil

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1829

Arkwright's prototype spinning machine, 1769.

Textiles Machinery

1769

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

Hannah Humphrey

1802

Arkwright's Water Frame

Textile Industry

1775

Section of lightning conductor from St Paul’s cathedral

Geophysics

1769

Phrenological head

Psychology, Psychiatry & Anthropometry

1821

Snuff box, England, 1771-1830

Smoking

1771-1830

Trevithick's model road locomotive engine

Road Transport

1796-1802

Toothbrush set, in rectangular red leather tooled

Dentistry

1791-1792

Musical transposition calculator, in circular slide-rule format

Mathematics

1820

Maudslay 's Lord Chancellor bench micrometer

Industrial Metrology

1805

Sextant by Jesse Ramsden

Astronomy

c. 1772

Caroline Herschel's telescope, 1795-1816

Astronomy

1795-1825

Original preparation of quinine

Materia Medica & Pharmacology

1820

Reflecting telescope by William Herschel

Astronomy

1783-1785

Terrestrial Globe by George Adams

King George III

1766

Davy Safety lamp

Mining & Ore Dressing

before 1815

Parrot-beak dental forceps

Dentistry

1780-1810

George III's philosophical table

King George III

1761-1762

Two Guillotine blades

Wellcome (general)

1790-1794

Mrs. Sage

.Unattributed

1785

Richard Arkwright

Joseph Wright of

1790

Model of Rotative Beam Engine by William Tongue, c. 1804

Motive Power

1797-1804

Model, of Woolf's Water Tube Boiler, 1819

Motive Power

1819

George III's glass sphere

King George III

1761

Filar micrometer by William Herschel, 1780-1800

Astronomy

1780-1800

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

Thomas Rowlandson

1820

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

Paul Sandby

1784

Model of a 28 gun frigate

Water Transport

1770-1780

Part of Two foot geodetic theodolite, British, 1826-1828

Surveying

1826-1828

Flintlock tinder pistol

Smoking

1780-1830
1800-1890, social reformer; civil servant, British

Chadwick, Sir Edwin

1800 - 1890

model locomotion no 1

Railway Models

1825