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Coalbrookdale by Night

Philippe-Jacques de Loutherbourg

1801

Rotative steam engine by Boulton and Watt, 1788.

Motive Power

1788

'Puffing Billy' locomotive

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1813-1814

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

Anatomy & Pathology

1818

Moon globe by John Russell;England;1797

Astronomy

1797

Theodolite used for the Principal Triangulation of Great Britain

Surveying

1791

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

Hannah Humphrey

1802

Trevithick's model road locomotive engine

Road Transport

1796-1802

Toothbrush set, in rectangular red leather tooled

Dentistry

1791-1792

Musical transposition calculator, in circular slide-rule format

Mathematics

1820

Maudslay 's Lord Chancellor bench micrometer

Industrial Metrology

1805

Original preparation of quinine

Materia Medica & Pharmacology

1820

Reflecting telescope by William Herschel

Astronomy

1783-1785

Davy Safety lamp

Mining & Ore Dressing

before 1815

Parrot-beak dental forceps

Dentistry

1780-1810

Two Guillotine blades

Wellcome (general)

1790-1794

Mrs. Sage

.Unattributed

1785

Richard Arkwright

Joseph Wright of

1790

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

Motive Power

1797-1804

Model, of Woolf's Water Tube Boiler, 1819

Motive Power

1819

Filar micrometer by William Herschel, 1780-1800

Astronomy

1780-1800

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

Thomas Rowlandson

1820

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

Paul Sandby

1784
1800-1890, social reformer; civil servant, British

Chadwick, Sir Edwin

1800 - 1890

Copying desk, with lock and key and felt on mahogany board

Printing & Writing

1780-1800

Conjectural model of Trevithick's locomotive 'Catch-me-who-can'

Railway Models

1808

Oval snuff box, England, 1807

Smoking

1807

Old Spitalfields hand loom with jacquard mechanism

Textiles Machinery

1810
1818-1865, physician, Hungarian

Semmelweis, Ignaz Philipp

1818 - 1865

Praeclarissimus Isaacus Newton Eques

Art

1787

Stanhope square demonstrator, c.1805.

Mathematics

c.1805

'Bell-crank' engine, c. 1799

Motive Power

1795-1805 (original)

Half-penny coin

Textile Industry

1799
1813-1858, anaesthetist; epidemiologist; physician, British; English

Snow, John

1813 - 1858

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

Hand and Machine Tools

c. 1800

Millwright's measuring tool

Weighing & Measuring

around 1790

Silver vinaigrette with hinged lid

Pharmacy-ware

1809

Brass quadrant by Peter and John Dollond of 18-inch radius with optical sights on a tripod

Astronomy

1780-1820

Electrical chimes by George Adams

King George III

1781-1790

Part of electrostatic telegraph, 1816

Telecommunications

1816

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

Orthopaedics

1795-1820

Chemical Lectures

Thomas Rowlandson

c.1810

Glass bottle for paregoric elixir

Materia Medica & Pharmacology

1786-1795

Travelling smoking set, Europe, 1815-1820

Smoking

1815-1820

Stipple-engraved portrait of Benjamin Martin

R Page

1815

Trevithick's High Pressure Steam Engine and Boiler, c. 1806

Motive Power

1805-1806

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

Julius Caesar Ibbetson

1785-1790

Half-penny coin

Textile Industry

1806

Silver pill box, Birmingham, England, 1797

Wellcome (general)

1797
Original screw-cutting lathe, made by Henry Maudslay, end of 18th century

Henry Maudslay's original screw-cutting lathe, c.1800

Hand and Machine Tools

c. 1800