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Stephenson's Rocket

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1829

'Puffing Billy' locomotive

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1813-1814

Rotative steam engine by Boulton and Watt, 1788.

Motive Power

1788

Shutt End Colliery Railway steam locomotive 'Agenoria'

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1829

Coalbrookdale by Night

Philippe-Jacques de Loutherbourg

1801

Sans Pareil

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1829

Laennec's stethoscope

Clinical Diagnosis

1815-1825

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

Smoking

1801-1830

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

Anatomy & Pathology

1818

Phrenological head

Psychology, Psychiatry & Anthropometry

1821

Caroline Herschel's telescope, 1795-1816

Astronomy

1795-1825

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

Microscopy (Wellcome)

1826
1818-1865, physician, Hungarian

Semmelweis, Ignaz Philipp

1818 - 1865

Reflecting telescope by William Herschel

Astronomy

1783-1785

Old Spitalfields hand loom with jacquard mechanism

Textiles Machinery

1810

Mrs. Sage

.Unattributed

1785

Stanhope square demonstrator, c.1805.

Mathematics

c.1805

Maudslay 's Lord Chancellor bench micrometer

Industrial Metrology

1805

Theodolite used for the Principal Triangulation of Great Britain

Surveying

1791

Edward Jenner's lancets

Public Health & Hygiene

1801-1823

Vaginal speculum for applying leeches

Clinical Diagnosis

1801-1830

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

Thomas Rowlandson

1820

Trevithick's model road locomotive engine

Road Transport

1796-1802
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

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

Hannah Humphrey

1802

Pocket globe in case by Dudley Adams

Astronomy

1799-1802

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

Textiles Machinery

1830

Original preparation of quinine

Materia Medica & Pharmacology

1820

model locomotion no 1

Railway Models

1825

Flintlock tinder pistol

Smoking

1780-1830

Phrenological head, microcephalic

Psychology, Psychiatry & Anthropometry

1820-1830

Cuff-type compound microscope

Microscopy (Wellcome)

1790-1810

Moon globe by John Russell;England;1797

Astronomy

1797

Oersted Compass Needle, 1828

Science Teaching

1828
1800-1890, social reformer; civil servant, British

Chadwick, Sir Edwin

1800 - 1890

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

Motive Power

1797-1804

A Singular Operation

William Nutter

1795

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

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

Orthopaedics

1801-1830

Electrotherapy equipment

Therapeutics

1801-1822

Stained plaster phrenological bust

Psychology, Psychiatry & Anthropometry

1821

Oval snuff box, England, 1807

Smoking

1807

Marine chronometer by John Arnold and Son, 1787-1799

Time Measurement

1787-1799

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

Orthopaedics

1795-1820

Five wooden molecular model balls

Scientific Instruments & Research

c. 1810

Alidade for plane table outfit

Surveying

1801-1830
1827-1912, surgeon; physician; developer of a system of antiseptic surgery, English; British

Lister, Joseph

1827 - 1912

Cornish penny token, 1811.

Coins, Medals & Tokens

1811

Air balloon as it ascended with Mr. Lunardi from the Artillery Ground

Art

1784