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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

Wax male anatomical figure

Anatomy & Pathology

1776-1780

One packet, 'experiment paper on copying', from James Watt's workshop

James Watt's Garret Workshop

1780

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

Anatomy & Pathology

1776-1780

Pivoted-detent escapement watch by John Arnold 1776-7

Clockmakers

1776

Wax male figure showing the muscles of the body

Anatomy & Pathology

1776-1780

Achromatic doublet lens

King George III

1780

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

Anatomy & Pathology

1776-1780

English wooden doll,circa 1780, of simple skittle

Materials Science Gallery

c. 1780

Wax male figure showing the arteries of the body, Florence, Italy, 1776-1780

Anatomy & Pathology

1776-1780

Spoon with folding handle

Pharmacy-ware

1778

Mezzotint portrait of John Bird

Valentine Green

1776

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

James Watson

1778

Engraving of a demonstration to compare lightning conductor designs

James Basire

1778-1780

Oil jar, Egypt, 1580-1350BCE

Classical & Medieval Medicine

2000-1350 BCE

Glass measuring cylinder, England, 1777

Therapeutics

1777

Circular instrument dividing engine.

Industrial Metrology

1778

Mummy of a peregrine falcon, Egypt, 2000-1001 BCE

Classical & Medieval Medicine

2000-1001 BCE

Trade card: Thomas H. Mason

.Unattributed

1780

Part of ventilator, rubber tube bound with brass w

Therapeutics

1780

print. engraving. Plate 31 `Chirurgie' [Surgery].

Art

1780

'Chirurgie' [Surgery], France, 1780

Unknown maker

1780
Case for Wax male anatomical figure, showing deep muscles and skeleton, in case, Italian, 1776-1780

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

Anatomy & Pathology

1776-1780

Compound microscope signed J. D. V. Fokkenberg Fec

Microscopes

1777

Brass clamp, with 'butterfly' turnscrew

Electricity and Magnetism

1780

Wax anatomical figure showing the muscles of the body

Anatomy & Pathology

1776-1780

Six's maximum and minimum thermometer

King George III

1780

Wooden Horse Gin

Motive Power

1780

Mortar, stoneware, impressed "Wedgwood & Bentley"

Experimental Chemistry

1780

Calculating machine invented by Charles Stanhope in 1777

Mathematics

1777

Mummy of a crocodile, Egypt, 2000-1001 BCE

Classical & Medieval Medicine

2000-1001 BCE

Square pavement brick from Babylonia (Southern Iraq), 2nd millennium BC.

Building Construction

2000-1001 BCE

Gunner's quadrant and perpendicular, c. 1780.

Mathematics

c. 1780

Six's maximum and minimum thermometer

King George III

1780

Microtome in box

King George III

1780

Wooden base for a component from the remains of a Cornish pumping engine

Motive Power

1777
Case for Wax male figure showing muscles, in case, Italian, 1776-1780

Case for wax male figure showing the muscles of the body

Anatomy & Pathology

1776-1780
Quick-grip vice for attaching to a lathe, made by Joseph Bramah, c. 1780

Quick-grip vice for attaching to a lathe

Hand and Machine Tools

c.1780

Mrs. Everitt and her son - The gigantic infant

William Richardson

1780

print. engraving. Plate 4 `Chirurgie' [Surgery]. F

Art

1780

print. engraving. Plate 33 `Chirurgie' [Surgery].

Art

1780

Trade card: Thomas Mason

.Unattributed

1780

print. engraving. Plate 22 `Chirurgie' [Surgery].

Art

1780
Case for Wax male figure, showing arterial system, Italian, 1776-1780

Case for wax figure showing the arteries of the body

Anatomy & Pathology

1776-1780

Six's maximum and minimum thermometer

King George III

1780

Base from discharging electrometer

Electricity and Magnetism

1780

Six's maximum and minimum thermometer

King George III

1780

Six's maximum and minimum thermometer

King George III

1780

Six's maximum and minimum thermometer

King George III

1780