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Rotative steam engine by Boulton and Watt, 1788

Motive Power

1788

Theodolite used for the Principal Triangulation of Great Britain

Surveying

1791

Reflecting telescope by William Herschel

Astronomy

1783-1785

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

Clockmakers

1791

Gold lever escapement watch by John Leroux

Clockmakers

1785

Mrs. Sage

.Unattributed

1785

'Early 'perpetuelle' watch by Abraham-Louis Breguet

Clockmakers

1783

Brass casting, roughly cylindrical, three sinkings in surface

James Watt's Garret Workshop

1782

Model of William Murdock's Oscillating Engine, 1785.

Motive Power

1785

Millwright's measuring tool

Weighing & Measuring

around 1790

Verge watch in Staffordshire enamelled case by Ann Phillips

Clockmakers

1790

Electrical chimes by George Adams

King George III

1781-1790

Hydrostatic balance by Jesse Ramsden, London, 1785-1789

Experimental Chemistry

1785-1789

Pivoted-detent escapement watch by Larcum Kendall

Clockmakers

1786

Three curved rectangular form brass castings

James Watt's Garret Workshop

1782

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

Classical & Medieval Medicine

2050-1750 BCE

Medal, Blanchard's balloon ascent, Nuremberg, Germany, 1787

Coins, Medals & Tokens

1785

Medal commemorating balloon flight of Blanchard at Frankfurt

Coins, Medals & Tokens

1785

Medal commemorating the Montgolfier unmanned balloon ascent

Coins, Medals & Tokens

1783
Newcomen Engine built by Francis Thompson of Ashover near Chesterfield 1791. Re-erected in house built with materials taken from the engine house at Pentrich, Derbyshire, where it was last worked

Newcomen Atmospheric Engine

Motive Power

1791

Medal, commemorating the first balloon ascents in Italy

Coins, Medals & Tokens

1784

Medal, 'Le Flesselles' Montgolfier balloon flight, Lyon, France, 19 January 1784

Coins, Medals & Tokens

1784

Set of magnetical apparatus in case, by Adams

Electricity and Magnetism

1790

Chronometer watch in silver case by John Arnold and Son

Time Measurement

hallmarked 1788

Medal commemorating the Montgolfier unmanned balloon ascent

Coins, Medals & Tokens

1783

Medal commemorating the first manned balloon flights

Coins, Medals & Tokens

1784

Satirical print of a failed balloon launch from Foley House, London in 1784

Paul Sandby

1784

Praeclarissimus Isaacus Newton Eques

Art

1787

Portrait oil painting of John Arnold and family 1783-1787

Robert Davy

1783-1787

Mr Lunardi's New Balloon

Art

1785

Richard Arkwright

Joseph Wright of

1790

Medal awarded by the Royal Humane Society, England, 1781

Wellcome Medals

1781

Lunardi's second balloon ascending from St. George's Fields, 1785

Julius Caesar Ibbetson

1785-1790

Joseph Priestley LLD FRS

J Walker

1782

Mummy of a peregrine falcon, Egypt, 2000-1001 BCE

Classical & Medieval Medicine

2000-1001 BCE

Oil jar, Egypt, 1580-1350BCE

Classical & Medieval Medicine

2000-1350 BCE

Anglesey penny token

Coins, Medals & Tokens

1787

Cronebane halfpenny token

Coins, Medals & Tokens

1789
Babbage, Charles

Babbage, Charles

1791 - 1871

Model of Iron Bridge, Coalbrookdale, Shropshire, 1784

Civil Engineering

1784
The first 48-inch speculum mirror cast by Sir William Herschel in 1785 for his 'Forty-Foot' telescope at Slough, England.

Original mirror for William Herschel's forty-foot telescope, 1785.

Astronomy

1785

Collycroft worsted textile mill, 1790

Motive Power

1790
Patient of Edward Jenner; First person to received Vaccination

Phipps, James

1788 - 1853
1791-1871, mathematician; computer pioneer, England, English; British

Babbage, Charles

1791 - 1871
Model of a Montgolfier Balloon, 1783

First public demonstration of a Montgolfier balloon, 4th June, 1783.

Aeronautics

1783; 1914

Tobacco resuscitator kit, England, 1785

Therapeutics

1785
1          A New English-Latin Dictionary. By John Entick M.A. MDCCLXXXIII. Leather 5½” x 5¼”

Book - " A New English-Latin Dictionary"

James Watt's Garret Workshop

1783
Hancock, Thomas

Hancock, Thomas

1786 - 1865
1786-1901, brand name used to 1990s, cigarette manufacturer; tobacco company, Bristol, England

W D and H O Wills Limited

1786 - 1901

Mr. Lunardi's ascent from the Artillery Ground in his balloon, 1785

Art

1785