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Rotative steam engine by Boulton and Watt, 1788

Motive Power

1788

Coalbrookdale by Night

Philippe-Jacques de Loutherbourg

1801

'Puffing Billy' locomotive

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1813-1814

Maudslay 's Lord Chancellor bench micrometer

Industrial Metrology

1805

Davy Safety lamp

Mining & Ore Dressing

before 1815

Marine chronometer by John Arnold and Son, 1787-1799

Time Measurement

1787-1799

Theodolite used for the Principal Triangulation of Great Britain

Surveying

1791

Machine-Screw thread making tool, by Henry Maudslay

Hand and Machine Tools

c.1800

Double-dialled longcase clock from Park Green Mill

Time Measurement

1800-1820

Original preparation of quinine

Materia Medica & Pharmacology

1820

Old Spitalfields hand loom with jacquard mechanism

Textiles Machinery

1810

Reflecting telescope by William Herschel

Astronomy

1783-1785

'Haystack' Boiler, 1775-1799

Motive Power

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

Copy of Chamberlen obstetric forceps

Obstetrics, Gynaecology & Contraception

1813

'Dr Syntax and his wife making an experiment in pneumatics', print, London, England, 1820

William Combe

1820

Moon globe by John Russell;England;1797

Astronomy

1797

Richard Grindall's combined knife and fork, Europe, 1795-1820

Orthopaedics

1795-1820

Mrs. Sage

.Unattributed

1785

Stanhope square demonstrator, c.1805.

Mathematics

c.1805

Two Guillotine blades

Wellcome (general)

1790-1794

Hack saw

James Watt's Garret Workshop

1790-1819

Trevithick's model road locomotive engine

Road Transport

1796-1802

'Bell-crank' engine, c. 1799

Motive Power

1795-1805 (original)

Cuff-type compound microscope

Microscopy (Wellcome)

1790-1810

Pair of Tongs

James Watt's Garret Workshop

1790-1819

Part of electrostatic telegraph, 1816

Telecommunications

1816

Equal size sculpture copying machine

James Watt's Garret Workshop

1790-1819

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

Clockmakers

1794

Model of Rotative Beam Engine by William Tongue, c. 1804

Motive Power

1797-1804

Five wooden molecular model balls

Scientific Instruments & Research

c. 1810

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

Hannah Humphrey

1802

Coppery coal from Gourock

James Watt's Garret Workshop

1790-1819

Marble reproduction of bust

James Watt's Garret Workshop

1790-1819

Model, of Woolf's Water Tube Boiler, 1819

Motive Power

1819

Marine chronometer by John Arnold and Son

Clockmakers

1795

Papier mache snuff box featuring semi-nude woman

Smoking

1790-1820

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

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

Paul Sandby

1784

Plaster mould of head of Apollo

James Watt's Garret Workshop

1790-1819

Millwright's measuring tool

Weighing & Measuring

around 1790

Plaster bust of Aristotle

James Watt's Garret Workshop

1790-1819

'Early 'perpetuelle' watch by Abraham-Louis Breguet

Clockmakers

1783

cylinder electrical machine, 1810-1817

Telecommunications

1810-1817

Metal casting of head of Homer

James Watt's Garret Workshop

1790-1819

Bundle of red cloth wrapped in paper labelled, “Specimens of red dye upon cotton”

James Watt's Garret Workshop

1790-1819

Electrical chimes by George Adams

King George III

1781-1790

Two pieces of iron

James Watt's Garret Workshop

1790-1819

Reducing sculpture copying machine

James Watt's Garret Workshop

1790-1819

Boring machine, Yard No. 642

Hand and Machine Tools

1804-1807