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Stephenson's Rocket

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1829

Snuff box, England, 1771-1830

Smoking

1771-1830

Arkwright's Water Frame, 1775

Textiles Machinery

1775

'Puffing Billy' locomotive

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1813-1814

Coalbrookdale by Night by Philippe Jacques de Loutherbourg

Philippe-Jacques de Loutherbourg

1801

Vaginal Speculum for Applying Leeches

Clinical Diagnosis

1801-1830

Rotative steam engine by Boulton and Watt, 1788

Motive Power

1788

Laennec's stethoscope

Clinical Diagnosis

1815-1825

Caroline Herschel's telescope, 1795-1816

Astronomy

1795-1825

Arkwright's Water Frame

Textile Industry

1775

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

Smoking

1801-1830

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

Microscopy (Wellcome)

1826

Steam locomotive No. 1 'Locomotion', Stockton & Darlington Railway

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1825

Old Spitalfields hand loom

Textiles Machinery

1810

Machine-Screw thread making tool, by Henry Maudslay

Hand and Machine Tools

c.1800

Sans Pareil

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1829

Original preparation of quinine by Pelletier and Caveton

Materia Medica & Pharmacology

1820

Reflecting telescope by William Herschel

Astronomy

1783-1785

Edward Jenner's lancets

Public Health & Hygiene

1801-1823

Hack saw

James Watt's Garret Workshop

1790-1819

Sextant by Jesse Ramsden

Astronomy

c. 1772

Two Perkins 'tractors'

Therapeutics

1795-1805

Flintlock tinder pistol

Smoking

1780-1830

The Ready Reckoner' book of tables, c 1826.

Mathematics

c.1826

Watt's end measuring machine

Industrial Metrology

1776

Maudslay 's Lord Chancellor bench micrometer

Industrial Metrology

1805

Marine chronometer by John Arnold and Son, 1787-1799

Time Measurement

1787-1799

Trevithick's model road locomotive engine

Road Transport

1796-1802

Theodolite used for the Principal Triangulation of Great Britain

Surveying

1791

'Early 'perpetuelle' watch by Abraham-Louis Breguet

Clockmakers

1783-1800

Davy Safety lamp

Mining & Ore Dressing

before 1815

Moon globe by John Russell;England;1797

Astronomy

1797

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

Hannah Humphrey

1802

'Bell-crank' engine, c. 1799

Motive Power

1795-1805 (original)

'Haystack' Boiler, 1775-1799

Motive Power

1775-1799 (original); 1900-1907 (model)

Five wooden molecular model balls

Scientific Instruments & Research

c. 1810

Shutt End Colliery Railway steam locomotive 'Agenoria'

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1829

Equal size sculpture copying machine

James Watt's Garret Workshop

1790-1819

Pocket globe in case by Dudley Adams

Astronomy

1799-1802

Filar micrometer by William Herschel, 1780-1800

Astronomy

1780-1800

Atmospheric Engine by John Smeaton, 1772

Motive Power

1772 (original); 1919 (model)

Mrs. Sage

.Unattributed

1785

Wax anatomical figure of reclining woman

Anatomy & Pathology

1771-1800

Millwright's measuring tool

Weighing & Measuring

around 1790

Model, of Woolf's Water Tube Boiler, 1819

Motive Power

1819

Stanhope square demonstrator, c.1805.

Mathematics

c.1805

Phrenological head

Psychology, Psychiatry & Anthropometry

1821

Pivoted-detent escapement watch by John Arnold

Clockmakers

1776

Silver one-minute tourbillon watch by Breguet et Fils, sold to the Princess de Valençay in 1812.

Clockmakers

1812

Reducing sculpture copying machine

James Watt's Garret Workshop

1790-1819