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Theodolite used for the Principal Triangulation of Great Britain

Surveying

1791

Moon globe by John Russell;England;1797

Astronomy

1797

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

Classical & Medieval Medicine

2050-1750 BCE
1800-1890, social reformer; civil servant, British

Chadwick, Sir Edwin

1800 - 1890
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

Half-penny coin

Textile Industry

1799

Millwright's measuring tool

Weighing & Measuring

around 1790

Silver pill box, Birmingham, England, 1797

Wellcome (general)

1797

Half-penny coin

Textile Industry

1799

Small screw-cutting device or fusee engine for clock-maker's use

Hand and Machine Tools

c. 1800

Set of magnetical apparatus in case, by Adams

Electricity and Magnetism

1790

Toothbrush set, in rectangular red leather tooled

Dentistry

1791-1792

Straight spectacles, silver, hallmarked London 179

Ophthalmology

1796-1797

Transverse folding spectacles, silver, hallmarked

Ophthalmology

1796-1798

Chronometer with case and accessories

Time Measurement

c. 1800

Seal die, Ashby De La Zouch Canal Company

Railway Heraldry

1794

Divers Projets

Art

1798

Richard Arkwright

Joseph Wright of

1790

A Singular Operation

William Nutter

1795
1790- about 1946, pencil manufacturer, Vienna

L&C Hardtmuth

1790 - 1946

The Rev Dr Priestley's House and Elaboratory

Joseph Johnson

1792

Stipple-engraved portrait of Margaret Bryan and two children

William Nutter

1797

Two Guillotine blades

Wellcome (general)

1790-1794

Brass framed sextant.

Navigation

1790-1800

Commemorative Halfpenny Token, Isaac Newton

Coins, Medals & Tokens

1793

Middlesex token, London Corresponding Society, 1795.

Coins, Medals & Tokens

1795

Physionotrace of Madam Roland

Photographs

1793

Coventry halfpenny token, 1793

Coins, Medals & Tokens

1793

Rutherford maximum and minimum thermometer, 1794

Meteorology

1794

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

Dentistry

1795

Withering's botanic simple microscope, English, c.

Optics

1790-1800

Collycroft worsted textile mill, 1790

Motive Power

1790

Token, copper, 28mm diameter. Dundee halfpenny, 17

Coins, Medals & Tokens

1797

Middlesex token, Tooke, 1794.

Coins, Medals & Tokens

1794

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

Dentistry

1795
1791-1871, mathematician; computer pioneer, England, English; British

Babbage, Charles

1791 - 1871

Token for Carmarthen Iron Works

Coins, Medals & Tokens

1792

Chelmsford halfpenny token

Coins, Medals & Tokens

1794

Dundee halfpenny token

Coins, Medals & Tokens

1796

Token, copper, 28mm diameter. Leith halfpenny, 179

Coins, Medals & Tokens

1796

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

Coins, Medals & Tokens

1795

Dundee farthing token

Coins, Medals & Tokens

1797

Clay figure of animal

Classical & Medieval Medicine

2000-1000 BCE
1799-1871, botanist; photographic artist, British

Atkins, Anna

1799 - 1871

Weighing machine, London, England, 1800

Nursing & Hospital Furnishings

1800
Model of a double acting beam type condensing engine with conical drop valves worked by an eccentric.

Model of a double acting beam type condensing engine

Motive Power

c. 1800

Mummy of a crocodile, Egypt, 2000-1001 BCE

Classical & Medieval Medicine

2000-1001 BCE
Brass lacquered sextant with straight-bar-pattern, 24 pillar frame, polished brass limb, wooden handle with counterbalanced tripod pillar stand and mercury artificial horizon in wooden box, all by John and Edward Troughton, 136 Fleet Street , London, England, 1790-1800. Consists of brass 127° scale (-5° to 140°) with 20’ divisions and brass vernier (10”), three index-filter shades (red & green), two horizon filters (red & green), scale magnifier on 90mm swivelling arm. Fitted with threaded telescope bracket for sighting telescope (182mm – inverted image) with 2 extra draw tubes, 131mm sighting tube and other accessories. The fitted rectangular case has in the lid the trade card for J. & E. Troughton. The artificial mercurial horizon consisting of a rectangular wooden trough fitted in a tin tray and a brass-framed, roof-shaped cover with glazed side panels, unsigned, made later, 1845-55.

Brass framed sextant with stand, artificial horizon and case.

Astronomy

1790-1800

Oil jar, Egypt, 1580-1350BCE

Classical & Medieval Medicine

2000-1350 BCE

Hexagonal hot-water bottle, Austrian, 1798

Nursing & Hospital Furnishings

1798