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Stephenson's Rocket

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1829

Coalbrookdale by Night

Philippe-Jacques de Loutherbourg

1801

'Puffing Billy' locomotive

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1813-1814

Rotative steam engine by Boulton and Watt, 1788.

Motive Power

1788

Sans Pareil

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1829

Stanhope square demonstrator, c.1805.

Mathematics

c.1805

Shutt End Colliery Railway steam locomotive 'Agenoria' 0-4-0, 1829

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1829

Maudslay 's Lord Chancellor bench micrometer

Industrial Metrology

1805

Filar micrometer by William Herschel, 1780-1800

Astronomy

1780-1800

Joseph Jackson Lister's microscope, London, England, 1826

Microscopy (Wellcome)

1826

Old Spitalfields hand loom with jacquard mechanism

Textiles Machinery

1810

Alidade for plane table outfit

Surveying

1801-1830

Oersted Compass Needle, 1828

Science Teaching

1828

Trevithick's model road locomotive engine

Road Transport

1796-1802

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

Orthopaedics

1795-1820

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

Railway Models

1808

'Old Age' statue, Staffordshire, England, 1801-1830

Orthopaedics

1801-1830

Newtonian reflecting telescope, 1795-1816

Astronomy

1795-1825

English Moon globe with libration stand

Astronomy

1797

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

Motive Power

1797-1804

Wollaston slide rule of chemical equivalents, 1814.

Experimental Chemistry

1814

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

Printing & Writing

1780-1800

Calculator for treadwheel labour, 1823

King George III

1823

Silver ear trumpet, London, England, 1814

Audiology

1814

Franks Telescope

Scientific Instruments & Research

1815-1825

Chronometer with case and accessories

Time Measurement

c. 1800

Cylindrical lead tobacco jar, English, 1790-1830

Smoking

1790-1830

Maudslay Oscillating Engine

Motive Power

1801-1830

Millwright's measuring tool

Weighing & Measuring

around 1790

Hedley's experimental model for testing adhesion.

Railway Models

1812

Water frame spindle

Textile Industry

1800-1830

model steam locomotive

Railway Models

1826

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

Motive Power

1805-1806

Phrenological head of Francis Gall

Psychology, Psychiatry & Anthropometry

1823

Hydrostatic balance by Jesse Ramsden, London, 1785-1789

Experimental Chemistry

1785-1789

Half-penny coin

Textile Industry

1799

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

Wellcome (general)

1801

Slide rule for exchange of weights and measures

Mathematics

1815

Small screw-cutting device or fusee engine for clo

Hand and Machine Tools

c. 1800

Part of Two foot geodetic theodolite, British, 1826-1828

Surveying

1826-1828

Orrery planetary model

Astronomy

1789-1795

Portrait oil painting of John Arnold and family 1783-1787

Robert Davy

1783-1787

Mr Lunardi's New Balloon

Art

1785

Half-penny coin

Textile Industry

1806

Silver pill box, Birmingham, England, 1797

Wellcome (general)

1797

Half-penny coin

Textile Industry

1799

cylinder electrical machine, 1810-1817

Telecommunications

1810-1817

Electrical chimes by George Adams

King George III

1781-1790

Part of electrostatic telegraph, 1816

Telecommunications

1816

Half-penny coin

Textile Industry

1806