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

Anatomy & Pathology

1818

Coalbrookdale by Night

Philippe-Jacques de Loutherbourg

1801

Rotative steam engine by Boulton and Watt, 1788.

Motive Power

1788

'Puffing Billy' locomotive

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1813-1814

Stephenson's Rocket

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1829

Difference Engine No 1

Computing & Data Processing

c. 1832

Prototype of the Brougham carriage

Road Transport

1838

Furness Railway steam locomotive 'Coppernob' 0-4-0, No 3, 1846

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1846

Compound microscope used by Joseph Jackson Lister

Microscopy (Wellcome)

1830-1850

Voigtlander daguerreotype camera

Photographic Technology

1841

Laennec's stethoscope

Clinical Diagnosis

1815-1825

Replica of Daguerre-Giroux camera

Photographic Technology

1839 (original); c. 1988 (replica)

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

Microscopy (Wellcome)

1826

Sans Pareil

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1829

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

Smoking

1801-1830

Sewing machine by Elias Howe

Textiles Machinery

c. 1846

Early inhaler for ether anaesthesia

Anaesthesiology

1847-1848

Shutt End Colliery Railway steam locomotive 'Agenoria'

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1829

Grand Junction Railway locomotive 'Columbine'

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1845
1818-1865, physician, Hungarian

Semmelweis, Ignaz Philipp

1818 - 1865

Theodolite used for the Principal Triangulation of Great Britain

Surveying

1791

Britannia statue

Fixtures & Fittings from Railway Buildings

1849

Trough battery, 1801-1838

Electricity and Magnetism

1801-1838

Phrenological head

Psychology, Psychiatry & Anthropometry

1821
1843-1910, microbiologist and Nobel prize winner, German

Koch, Robert

1843 - 1910

Machine used for covering wires with silk and cotton, 1837

Textiles Machinery

1837

Palmer's micrometer (replica)

Industrial Metrology

c. 1848

Trevithick's model road locomotive engine

Road Transport

1796-1802

Queen Adelaide's Saloon, NO. 2

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1842

Reflecting telescope by William Herschel

Astronomy

1783-1785

Branding tool for marking deserters, London, England 1810-1850

Wellcome (general)

1810-1850

Stanhope square demonstrator, c.1805.

Mathematics

c.1805

Caroline Herschel's telescope, 1795-1816

Astronomy

1795-1825

Mrs. Sage

.Unattributed

1785

Vaginal speculum for applying leeches

Clinical Diagnosis

1801-1830

Thames Tunnel opening commemorative medal, 1843

Coins, Medals & Tokens

1843

Original preparation of quinine

Materia Medica & Pharmacology

1820

Moon globe by John Russell;England;1797

Astronomy

1797

Old Spitalfields hand loom with jacquard mechanism

Textiles Machinery

1810

Edward Jenner's lancets

Public Health & Hygiene

1801-1823

Maudslay 's Lord Chancellor bench micrometer

Industrial Metrology

1805

Cooke and Wheatstone 5-needle telegraph, 1837

Telecommunications

1837

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

Thomas Rowlandson

1820

Set of sixty miniature heads used in phrenology

Psychology, Psychiatry & Anthropometry

1831

Anatomical drawing of a human skeleton

John Linnell

1840

Lord Byron’s orthopaedic boot, England, 1781-1810

Orthopaedics

1781-1810

Meerschaum tobacco pipe, with carved horn stem and

Smoking

1790-1840

Bodmin & Wadebridge Railway 3rd Class open railway carriage, 1834

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1834
1827-1912, surgeon; physician; developer of a system of antiseptic surgery, English; British

Lister, Joseph

1827 - 1912
1813-1858, anaesthetist; epidemiologist; physician, British; English

Snow, John

1813 - 1858