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Stephenson's Rocket

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1829

Arkwright's water frame, 1775.

Textiles Machinery

1775

Rotative steam engine by Boulton and Watt, 1788.

Motive Power

1788

'Puffing Billy' locomotive

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1813-1814

Vaginal speculum for applying leeches

Clinical Diagnosis

1801-1830

Coalbrookdale by Night

Philippe-Jacques de Loutherbourg

1801

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

Anatomy & Pathology

1818

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

Microscopy (Wellcome)

1826

Laennec's stethoscope

Clinical Diagnosis

1815-1825

Arkwright's Water Frame

Textile Industry

1775

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

Smoking

1801-1830

Snuff box, England, 1771-1830

Smoking

1771-1830

Caroline Herschel's telescope, 1795-1816

Astronomy

1795-1825

Edward Jenner's lancets

Public Health & Hygiene

1801-1823

Phrenological head

Psychology, Psychiatry & Anthropometry

1821

Shutt End Colliery Railway steam locomotive 'Agenoria'

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1829

Sans Pareil

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1829

Theodolite used for the Principal Triangulation of Great Britain

Surveying

1791

Rawhide bag for storing cinchona bark

Materia Medica & Pharmacology

1777-1785

Moon globe by John Russell;England;1797

Astronomy

1797

Trevithick's model road locomotive engine

Road Transport

1796-1802

Maudslay 's Lord Chancellor bench micrometer

Industrial Metrology

1805

Flintlock tinder pistol

Smoking

1780-1830

Watt's end measuring machine

Industrial Metrology

1776
1800-1890, social reformer; civil servant, British

Chadwick, Sir Edwin

1800 - 1890

Water frame spindle

Textile Industry

1800-1830

Sextant by Jesse Ramsden

Astronomy

c. 1772

Ornate circumcision knife with ivory handle

Surgery

1775-1785

Pocket globe in case by Dudley Adams

Astronomy

1799-1802

'Early 'perpetuelle' watch by Abraham-Louis Breguet

Clockmakers

1783

Spring detent watch by John Arnold, used by Ruth Bellville and family to distribute GMT c.1834-1940

Clockmakers

1794

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

Hannah Humphrey

1802

Musical transposition calculator, in circular slide-rule format

Mathematics

1820

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

Hand and Machine Tools

c. 1800

Sunderland ware jug decorated with pink lustre ban

Civil Engineering

1813

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

Paul Sandby

1784

Under-painted horn pair-cased watch by George Flote

Clockmakers

1800
1818-1865, physician, Hungarian

Semmelweis, Ignaz Philipp

1818 - 1865

Wax anatomical figure of reclining woman

Anatomy & Pathology

1771-1800

Marine chronometer by John Arnold and Son

Clockmakers

1795

Oersted Compass Needle, 1828

Science Teaching

1828

Praeclarissimus Isaacus Newton Eques

Art

1787

Original preparation of quinine

Materia Medica & Pharmacology

1820

Pivoted-detent escapement watch by John Arnold 1776-7

Clockmakers

1776

Old Spitalfields hand loom with jacquard mechanism

Textiles Machinery

1810
1813-1858, anaesthetist; epidemiologist; physician, British; English

Snow, John

1813 - 1858

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

Textiles Machinery

1830

Model, of Woolf's Water Tube Boiler, 1819

Motive Power

1819

Reflecting telescope by William Herschel

Astronomy

1783-1785

Wax plaque showing foetus in the womb

Obstetrics, Gynaecology & Contraception

1801-1830