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Stephenson's Rocket

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1829

Rotative steam engine by Boulton and Watt, 1788

Motive Power

1788

Vaginal Speculum for Applying Leeches

Clinical Diagnosis

1801-1830

Coalbrookdale by Night by Philippe Jacques de Loutherbourg

Philippe-Jacques de Loutherbourg

1801

'Puffing Billy' locomotive

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1813-1814

Laennec's stethoscope

Clinical Diagnosis

1815-1825

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

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1825

Moon globe by John Russell;England;1797

Astronomy

1797

Sans Pareil

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1829

The Ready Reckoner' book of tables, c 1826.

Mathematics

c.1826

Machine-Screw thread making tool, by Henry Maudslay

Hand and Machine Tools

c.1800

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

Smoking

1801-1830

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

Microscopy (Wellcome)

1826

Davy Safety lamp

Mining & Ore Dressing

before 1815

Caroline Herschel's telescope, 1795-1816

Astronomy

1795-1825

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

Orthopaedics

1795-1820

Old Spitalfields hand loom with jacquard mechanism

Textiles Machinery

1810

Original preparation of quinine by Pelletier and Caveton

Materia Medica & Pharmacology

1820

Phrenological head

Psychology, Psychiatry & Anthropometry

1821

Maudslay 's Lord Chancellor bench micrometer

Industrial Metrology

1805

Edward Jenner's lancets

Public Health & Hygiene

1801-1823

Flintlock tinder pistol

Smoking

1780-1830

Theodolite used for the Principal Triangulation of Great Britain

Surveying

1791

Stanhope square demonstrator, c.1805.

Mathematics

c.1805

'Haystack' Boiler, 1775-1799

Motive Power

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

Reflecting telescope by William Herschel

Astronomy

1783-1785

Pocket globe in case by Dudley Adams

Astronomy

1799-1802

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

Hannah Humphrey

1802

Pair of Tongs

James Watt's Garret Workshop

1790-1819

Plaster cast, Venus

James Watt's Garret Workshop

1790-1819

Marine chronometer by John Arnold and Son, 1787-1799

Time Measurement

1787-1799

Five wooden molecular model balls

Scientific Instruments & Research

c. 1810

Three-part plaster split mould used for the production of plaster cast urn

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

Filar micrometer by William Herschel, 1780-1800

Astronomy

1780-1800

Alidade for plane table outfit by W. & S. Jones

Surveying

1801-1830

Shutt End Colliery Railway steam locomotive 'Agenoria'

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1829

Trevithick's model road locomotive engine

Road Transport

1796-1802

Model, of Woolf's Water Tube Boiler, 1819

Motive Power

1819

Two Guillotine blades and plinth

Wellcome (general)

1790-1794

Vacuum Gauge by Boulton and Watt

Motive Power

1794

'Bell-crank' engine, c. 1799

Motive Power

1795-1805 (original)

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

Textiles Machinery

1830

Onelarge jar containing: white powder, piece of paper, “Old plaster mixed with alum water will set”

James Watt's Garret Workshop

1790-1819

Marine chronometer by John Arnold and Son

Clockmakers

1795

Wax plaque showing foetus in the womb

Obstetrics, Gynaecology & Contraception

1801-1830

Equal size sculpture copying machine

James Watt's Garret Workshop

1790-1819

Deck-watch used by Capt. George Vancouver on board HMS Discovery 1791-5

Clockmakers

1791

Slide rule for exchange of weights and measures

Mathematics

1815

Gold lever escapement watch by John Leroux

Clockmakers

1785