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Arkwright's water frame, 1775.

Textiles Machinery

1775

Rotative steam engine by Boulton and Watt, 1788.

Motive Power

1788

Theodolite used for the Principal Triangulation of Great Britain

Surveying

1791

Arkwright's Water Frame

Textile Industry

1775

Reflecting telescope by William Herschel

Astronomy

1783-1785

Mrs. Sage

.Unattributed

1785

Moon globe by John Russell;England;1797

Astronomy

1797

Sextant by Jesse Ramsden

Astronomy

c. 1772

Watt's end measuring machine

Industrial Metrology

1776

Copy of clay liver used for divination, original from Babylon, 2050-1750 BCE

Classical & Medieval Medicine

2050-1750 BCE
1800-1890, social reformer; civil servant, British

Chadwick, Sir Edwin

1800 - 1890

Wax anatomical figure of reclining woman

Anatomy & Pathology

1771-1800

Ornate circumcision knife with ivory handle

Surgery

1775-1785

Marine chronometer by John Arnold and Son, 1787-1799

Time Measurement

1787-1799

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

Paul Sandby

1784

Pedometer by Spencer & Perkins

Surveying

1775-1794

Wax male figure showing the muscles and bones of the body, Florence, Italy, 1776-1780

Anatomy & Pathology

1776-1780

Electrical chimes by George Adams

King George III

1781-1790
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

Infant feeding bottle, Europe, 1701-1800

Nursing & Hospital Furnishings

1771-1800

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

Printing & Writing

1780-1800

Half-penny coin

Textile Industry

1799

Steel dental key, England, 1771-1800

Dentistry

1771-1800

Portrait oil painting of John Arnold and family 1783-1787

Robert Davy

1783-1787

Child's spinal support, Europe, 1771-1800

Orthopaedics

1771-1800

Filar micrometer by William Herschel, 1780-1800

Astronomy

1780-1800

Glass bottle for paregoric elixir

Materia Medica & Pharmacology

1786-1795

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

Julius Caesar Ibbetson

1785-1790

Millwright's measuring tool

Weighing & Measuring

around 1790

Silver pill box, Birmingham, England, 1797

Wellcome (general)

1797

Mechanical Powers Apparatus

King George III

1775-1800

Beam compass by George Adams

King George III

1775-1795

Hydrostatic balance by Jesse Ramsden, London, 1785-1789

Experimental Chemistry

1785-1789

Wax male figure showing the muscles of the body

Anatomy & Pathology

1776-1780

Half-penny coin

Textile Industry

1799

Rawhide bag for storing cinchona bark

Materia Medica & Pharmacology

1777-1785

Achromatic doublet lens

King George III

1780

Wax male anatomical figure

Anatomy & Pathology

1776-1780

Netsuke depicting man with moxa on leg

Asian Medicine

1771-1800

Wax male figure showing the veins and some organs of the body, Florence, Italy, 1776-1780

Anatomy & Pathology

1776-1780

Small screw-cutting device or fusee engine for clock-maker's use

Hand and Machine Tools

c. 1800

Set of magnetical apparatus in case, by Adams

Electricity and Magnetism

1790

Model of Sun and Planet Gearing

Motive Power

1782-1784

Toothbrush set, in rectangular red leather tooled

Dentistry

1791-1792

Front side of right kidney

Anatomy & Pathology

1771-1800

Textile printing block, rectangular

Textiles Machinery

1760-1775 probable date

Single mammary gland from wax anatomical figure

Anatomy & Pathology

1771-1800

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

Anatomy & Pathology

1774-1800

Front part of lungs from wax anatomical figure of reclining woman

Anatomy & Pathology

1771-1800

Stomach from wax anatomical figure

Anatomy & Pathology

1771-1800