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Arkwright's water frame, 1775.

Textiles Machinery

1775

Rotative steam engine by Boulton and Watt, 1788.

Motive Power

1788

Ornate circumcision knife with ivory handle

Surgery

1775-1785

Filar micrometer by William Herschel, 1780-1800

Astronomy

1780-1800

Arkwright's Water Frame

Textile Industry

1775

Pedometer by Spencer & Perkins

Surveying

1775-1794

English Moon globe with libration stand

Astronomy

1797

Copying desk, with lock and key and felt on mahogany board

Printing & Writing

1780-1800

Chronometer with case and accessories

Time Measurement

c. 1800

Millwright's measuring tool

Weighing & Measuring

around 1790

Infant feeding bottle, Europe, 1701-1800

Nursing & Hospital Furnishings

1771-1800

Hydrostatic balance by Jesse Ramsden, London, 1785-1789

Experimental Chemistry

1785-1789

Half-penny coin

Textile Industry

1799

Small screw-cutting device or fusee engine for clo

Hand and Machine Tools

c. 1800

Orrery planetary model

Astronomy

1789-1795

Portrait oil painting of John Arnold and family 1783-1787

Robert Davy

1783-1787

Mr Lunardi's New Balloon

Art

1785

Silver pill box, Birmingham, England, 1797

Wellcome (general)

1797

Half-penny coin

Textile Industry

1799

Mechanical Powers Apparatus

King George III

1775-1800

Steel dental key, England, 1771-1800

Dentistry

1771-1800

Beam compass by George Adams

King George III

1775-1795

Electrical chimes by George Adams

King George III

1781-1790

Child's spinal support, Europe, 1771-1800

Orthopaedics

1771-1800

Achromatic doublet lens

King George III

1780

Set of magnetical apparatus in case, by Adams

Electricity and Magnetism

1790

Chronometer watch in silver case by John Arnold an

Time Measurement

hallmarked 1788

Seal die, Ashby De La Zouch Canal Company

Railway Heraldry

1794

Creamware plate, painted overglaze scene of a bapt

Medical Ceramic-ware

1771-1800

Portrait mezzotint print from engraving of Bird John, 1776

Valentine Green

1776

Wax model of a decomposing body in a walnut coffin, Italy, 1774-1800

Anatomy & Pathology

1774-1800
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

Straight spectacles, silver, hallmarked London 179

Ophthalmology

1796-1797

Transverse folding spectacles, silver, hallmarked

Ophthalmology

1796-1798

English wooden doll,circa 1780, of simple skittle

Materials Science Gallery

c. 1780

Wood moulding plane, dated 1771

Hand and Machine Tools

1771

Model of Sun and Planet Gearing

Motive Power

1782-1784

Glass bottle for paregoric elixir

Materia Medica & Pharmacology

1786-1795

Toothbrush set, in rectangular red leather tooled

Dentistry

1791-1792

Textile printing block, rectangular

Textiles Machinery

1760-1775 probable date

Richard Arkwright

Joseph Wright of

1790

Praeclarissimus Isaacus Newton Eques

Art

1787

The Rev Dr Priestley's House and Elaboratory

Joseph Johnson

1792

Mrs. Bryan and Children

Art

1797

Portrait mezzotint print from engraving of Phelps Thomas and Bartlett John, 1778

James Watson

1778

A View of the Apparatus

James Basire

1778-1780

Joseph Priestley LLD FRS

Art

1782

Telescopic study of the Moon

John Russell

1796
1791-1871, mathematician; computer pioneer, England, English; British

Babbage, Charles

1791 - 1871
The first 48-inch speculum mirror cast by Sir William Herschel in 1785 for his 'Forty-Foot' telescope at Slough, England.

Original mirror for William Herschel's forty-foot telescope, 1785.

Astronomy

1785