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Silver vinaigrette with hinged lid

Pharmacy-ware

1809

Slide rule for exchange of weights and measures

Mathematics

1815

Half-penny coin

Textile Industry

1806

Millwright's measuring tool

Weighing & Measuring

around 1790

Luke Howard's original rain guage

Meteorology

1818

Theodolite used for the Principal Triangulation of Great Britain

Surveying

1791

Silver pill box, Birmingham, England, 1797

Wellcome (general)

1797

Half-penny coin

Textile Industry

1799

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

Printing & Writing

1780-1800

cylinder electrical machine, 1810-1817

Telecommunications

1810-1817

'Puffing Billy' locomotive

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1813-1814

Stanhope square demonstrator, c.1805.

Mathematics

c.1805

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

Astronomy

1780-1820

Davy Safety lamp

Mining & Ore Dressing

before 1815

Reflecting telescope by William Herschel, 1783-1785

Astronomy

1783-1785

Electrical chimes by George Adams

King George III

1781-1790

Part of electrostatic telegraph, 1816

Telecommunications

1816

Copy of Chamberlen obstetric forceps

Obstetrics, Gynaecology & Contraception

1813

Hydrostatic balance by Jesse Ramsden, London, 1785-1789

Experimental Chemistry

1785-1789

Half-penny coin

Textile Industry

1806

Ready reckoner for ship's cargoes

Mathematics

1807

Half-penny coin

Textile Industry

1799

Oval snuff box, England, 1807

Smoking

1807

Moon globe by John Russell;England;1797

Astronomy

1797

Cuff-type compound microscope

Microscopy (Wellcome)

1790-1810

Hunter type clinical thermometer

Clinical Diagnosis

1791-1820

Achromatic doublet lens

King George III

1780

Old Spitalfields hand loom with jacquard mechanism

Textiles Machinery

1810

Pocket globe in case by Dudley Adams

Astronomy

1799-1802

Marine chronometer by John Arnold and Son, 1787-1799

Time Measurement

1787-1799

Rotative steam engine by Boulton and Watt, 1788.

Motive Power

1788

Double-dialled longcase clock from Park Green Mill

Time Measurement

1800-1820

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

Anatomy & Pathology

1818

Silver pill box engraved with a triangular pattern, Birmingham, England, 1801

Wellcome (general)

1801

Silver ear trumpet, London, England, 1814

Audiology

1814

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

Orthopaedics

1795-1820

Filar micrometer by William Herschel, 1780-1800

Astronomy

1780-1800

Two Perkins 'tractors'

Therapeutics

1795-1805

Sycamore (wood) case with lid, for the Mark of Alicante from the Castlereagh Collection

Weighing & Measuring

1800-1818

Sunderland ware jug decorated with pink lustre ban

Civil Engineering

1813

Small screw-cutting device or fusee engine for clo

Hand and Machine Tools

c. 1800

36-drawer wooden cabinet, with drawers numbered 37 to 72, from the Viscount Castlereagh Collection for Alicante, Spain

Weighing & Measuring

1815-1818

Papier mache snuff box featuring semi-nude woman

Smoking

1790-1820

Trevithick's model road locomotive engine

Road Transport

1796-1802

Transverse folding spectacles, silver, hallmarked

Ophthalmology

1796-1798

Straight spectacles, silver, hallmarked London 179

Ophthalmology

1796-1797

Surveyor's pocket sextant.

Surveying

1795-1805

Model, of Woolf's Water Tube Boiler, 1819

Motive Power

1819

English wooden doll,circa 1780, of simple skittle

Materials Science Gallery

c. 1780

Parrot-beak dental forceps

Dentistry

1780-1810