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Stephenson's Rocket

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1829

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

Laennec's stethoscope

Clinical Diagnosis

1815-1825

Vaginal speculum for applying leeches

Clinical Diagnosis

1801-1830

Water pipe, for smoking opium or tobacco, China, 1801-1830

Smoking

1801-1830

Steam locomotive No. 1 'Locomotion', Stockton & Darlington Railway

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1825

Edward Jenner's lancets

Public Health & Hygiene

1801-1823

Musical transposition calculator, in circular slide-rule format

Mathematics

1820

Phrenological head

Psychology, Psychiatry & Anthropometry

1821

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

Microscopy (Wellcome)

1826

Old Spitalfields hand loom with jacquard mechanism

Textiles Machinery

1810

Moon globe by John Russell;England;1797

Astronomy

1797

Trevithick's model road locomotive engine

Road Transport

1796-1802

Caroline Herschel's telescope, 1795-1816

Astronomy

1795-1825

Maudslay 's Lord Chancellor bench micrometer

Industrial Metrology

1805

Theodolite used for the Principal Triangulation of Great Britain

Surveying

1791

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

Anatomy & Pathology

1818

Shutt End Colliery Railway steam locomotive 'Agenoria'

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1829

Sans Pareil

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1829

Part of electrostatic telegraph, 1816

Telecommunications

1816

Copy of Thimonnier's chain-stitch sewing machine, 1830.

Textiles Machinery

1830

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

Hannah Humphrey

1802

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

Thomas Rowlandson

1820

Reflecting telescope by William Herschel

Astronomy

1783-1785

Davy Safety lamp

Mining & Ore Dressing

before 1815

Pocket globe in case by Dudley Adams

Astronomy

1799-1802

Iron mortsafe lid

Anatomy & Pathology

1801-1822

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

Motive Power

1797-1804

Verge watch in Staffordshire enamelled case by Ann Phillips

Clockmakers

1790

Marine chronometer by John Arnold and Son, 1787-1799

Time Measurement

1787-1799

Model of William Murdock's Oscillating Engine, 1785.

Motive Power

1785

Mrs. Sage

.Unattributed

1785
1818-1865, physician, Hungarian

Semmelweis, Ignaz Philipp

1818 - 1865

Stanhope square demonstrator, c.1805.

Mathematics

c.1805

Electrical chimes by George Adams

King George III

1781-1790

'Bell-crank' engine, c. 1799

Motive Power

1795-1805 (original)

Machine-Screw thread making tool, by Henry Maudslay

Hand and Machine Tools

c.1800

Oersted Compass Needle, 1828

Science Teaching

1828

Flintlock tinder pistol

Smoking

1780-1830

model locomotion no 1

Railway Models

1825

Original preparation of quinine

Materia Medica & Pharmacology

1820

Phrenological head, microcephalic

Psychology, Psychiatry & Anthropometry

1820-1830

Wax plaque of woman showing foetus in the womb

Obstetrics, Gynaecology & Contraception

1801-1830

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

Orthopaedics

1801-1830

Electrotherapy equipment

Therapeutics

1801-1822

Richard Arkwright

Joseph Wright of

1790

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

Classical & Medieval Medicine

2050-1750 BCE
1800-1890, social reformer; civil servant, British

Chadwick, Sir Edwin

1800 - 1890