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Rotative steam engine by Boulton and Watt, 1788.

Motive Power

1788

Reflecting telescope by William Herschel

Astronomy

1783-1785

Verge watch in Staffordshire enamelled case by Ann Phillips

Clockmakers

1790

Model of William Murdock's Oscillating Engine, 1785.

Motive Power

1785

Mrs. Sage

.Unattributed

1785

Electrical chimes by George Adams

King George III

1781-1790

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

Classical & Medieval Medicine

2050-1750 BCE

Richard Arkwright

Joseph Wright of

1790

'Early 'perpetuelle' watch by Abraham-Louis Breguet

Clockmakers

1783

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

James Watt's Garret Workshop

1780

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

Julius Caesar Ibbetson

1785-1790

Model of Sun and Planet Gearing

Motive Power

1782-1784

Collycroft worsted textile mill, 1790

Motive Power

1790

Portrait oil painting of John Arnold and family 1783-1787

Robert Davy

1783-1787

Millwright's measuring tool

Weighing & Measuring

around 1790

Pivoted-detent escapement watch by Larcum Kendall 1786-7

Clockmakers

1786

Hydrostatic balance by Jesse Ramsden, London, 1785-1789

Experimental Chemistry

1785-1789

Achromatic doublet lens

King George III

1780

Three curved rectangular form brass castings

James Watt's Garret Workshop

1782

English wooden doll,circa 1780, of simple skittle

Materials Science Gallery

c. 1780

Chronometer watch in silver case

Time Measurement

hallmarked 1788

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

Paul Sandby

1784

Mr Lunardi's New Balloon

Art

1785

Set of magnetical apparatus in case, by Adams

Electricity and Magnetism

1790

Praeclarissimus Isaacus Newton Eques

Art

1787

Joseph Priestley LLD FRS

J Walker

1782
1790- about 1946, pencil manufacturer, Vienna

L&C Hardtmuth

1790 - 1946

Model of Iron Bridge, Coalbrookdale, Shropshire, 1784

Civil Engineering

1784
Model of sun and planet gearing, made by James Watt ,1782-1784, demonstrating the action designed to produce a rotative motion. Preserved by James Watt & Co.

Model of Sun and Planet Gearing made by James Watt

Motive Power

1782-1784
1790-1852, printing engineer; university teacher, British

Cowper, Edward Shickle

1790 - 1852

Oil jar, Egypt, 1580-1350BCE

Classical & Medieval Medicine

2000-1350 BCE

Tobacco resuscitator kit, England, 1785

Therapeutics

1785

Wilkinson halfpenny token, 1790.

Coins, Medals & Tokens

1790

Medal, 'Le Flesselles' Montgolfier balloon flight, Lyon, France, 19 January 1784

Coins, Medals & Tokens

1784
Patient of Edward Jenner; First person to received Vaccination

Phipps, James

1788 - 1853

speculum mirror, 1783-1785

Astronomy

1783-1785

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

Classical & Medieval Medicine

2000-1001 BCE

Medal awarded by the Royal Humane Society, England, 1781

Wellcome Medals

1781
1781-1826, physician; inventor of the monaural stethoscope, French

Laennec, René Théophile Hyacinthe

1781 - 1826

Trade card: Thomas H. Mason

.Unattributed

1780

Orrery planetary model with gearwork and scale

Astronomy

1781-1789

Thirteen hydrostatic balls for proving spirits, by

Experimental Chemistry

1790

Print, ascent of a Montgolfier balloon

Art

1783

Blanchard and Jeffries crossing the Channel

.Unattributed

c. 1785
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

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

Art

1780

Token issued by John Wilkinson, 18th century Ironmaster

Coins, Medals & Tokens

1788

Orrery planetary model by William Jones, 1851-1856

Astronomy

1787-1789

Sundial, Gnomon fixed on a cannon over touch hole of which a lens is fixed

Time Measurement

1782

Medal commemorating Benjamin Franklin

Coins, Medals & Tokens

1786