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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

Verge watch in Staffordshire enamelled case by Ann Phillips

Clockmakers

1790

Model of William Murdock's Oscillating Engine, 1785.

Motive Power

1785

Mrs. Sage

.Unattributed

1785

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

Classical & Medieval Medicine

2050-1750 BCE

Richard Arkwright

Joseph Wright of

1790

Marine chronometer by John Arnold and Son

Clockmakers

1795

Spring detent watch by John Arnold, used by Ruth Bellville and family to distribute GMT c.1834-1940

Clockmakers

1794

Terrestrial globe by John and William Cary, London

Clockmakers

1790-1794

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

Julius Caesar Ibbetson

1785-1790

Collycroft worsted textile mill, 1790

Motive Power

1790

Millwright's measuring tool

Weighing & Measuring

around 1790

Six Bramah lock drilling templates, on pine (wood) board

Hand and Machine Tools

c.1795

Pivoted-detent escapement watch by Larcum Kendall 1786-7

Clockmakers

1786

Hydrostatic balance by Jesse Ramsden, London, 1785-1789

Experimental Chemistry

1785-1789

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

Clockmakers

1791

Chronometer watch in silver case

Time Measurement

hallmarked 1788

Glass bottle for paregoric elixir

Materia Medica & Pharmacology

1786-1795

Mr Lunardi's New Balloon

Art

1785

Set of magnetical apparatus in case, by Adams

Electricity and Magnetism

1790

Seal die, Ashby De La Zouch Canal Company

Railway Heraldry

1794

Toothbrush set, in rectangular red leather tooled

Dentistry

1791-1792

Hippopotamus ivory teeth, lower denture on stand, England, 1795

Dentistry

1795

Two Guillotine blades

Wellcome (general)

1790-1794

The Rev Dr Priestley's House and Elaboratory

Joseph Johnson

1792

Praeclarissimus Isaacus Newton Eques

Art

1787

Coalbrookdale Halfpenny Token

Coins, Medals & Tokens

1792
1790- about 1946, pencil manufacturer, Vienna

L&C Hardtmuth

1790 - 1946
Babbage, Charles

Babbage, Charles

1791 - 1871
1790-1852, printing engineer; university teacher, British

Cowper, Edward Shickle

1790 - 1852

Oil jar, Egypt, 1580-1350BCE

Classical & Medieval Medicine

2000-1350 BCE

Rutherford maximum and minimum thermometer, 1794

Meteorology

1794

Commemorative Halfpenny Token, Isaac Newton

Coins, Medals & Tokens

1793

Orrery planetary model

Astronomy

1789-1795

Veneer cut by machinery invented by Sir Samuel Ben

Hand and Machine Tools

1791-3

Tobacco resuscitator kit, England, 1785

Therapeutics

1785

Wilkinson halfpenny token, 1790.

Coins, Medals & Tokens

1790

Movement of turret clock

Time Measurement

1795

Emsworth halfpenny token, 'The wooden walls of old England', 1795.

Coins, Medals & Tokens

1795
Patient of Edward Jenner; First person to received Vaccination

Phipps, James

1788 - 1853

Lackington's halfpenny token

Coins, Medals & Tokens

1794

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

Classical & Medieval Medicine

2000-1001 BCE

Manchester halfpenny token

Coins, Medals & Tokens

1793

Coventry halfpenny token, 1793

Coins, Medals & Tokens

1793

Letter from George Washington to his dentist, United States, 1795

Dentistry

1795

Physionotrace of Madam Roland

Photographs

1793

Coalbrookdale halfpenny token, 1792.

Coins, Medals & Tokens

1792

John Wilkinson, Iron Master, Token

Coins, Medals & Tokens

1787-1793

John Harvey of Norwich, Token

Coins, Medals & Tokens

1792