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Coalbrookdale by Night

Philippe-Jacques de Loutherbourg

1801

'Puffing Billy' locomotive

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1813-1814

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

Anatomy & Pathology

1818

Phrenological head

Psychology, Psychiatry & Anthropometry

1821

Maudslay 's Lord Chancellor bench micrometer

Industrial Metrology

1805

Theodolite used for the Principal Triangulation of Great Britain

Surveying

1791

Trevithick's model road locomotive engine

Road Transport

1796-1802

Moon globe by John Russell;England;1797

Astronomy

1797

Napoleon's Toothbrush, Europe, 1790-1821

Dentistry

1790-1821

Musical transposition calculator, in circular slide-rule format

Mathematics

1820

'Bell-crank' engine, c. 1799

Motive Power

1795-1805 (original)

Old Spitalfields hand loom with jacquard mechanism

Textiles Machinery

1810
1818-1865, physician, Hungarian

Semmelweis, Ignaz Philipp

1818 - 1865

Conjectural model of Trevithick's locomotive 'Catch-me-who-can'

Railway Models

1808

Original preparation of quinine

Materia Medica & Pharmacology

1820

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

Hannah Humphrey

1802

Part of electrostatic telegraph, 1816

Telecommunications

1816

Two Perkins 'tractors'

Therapeutics

1795-1805

Castlereagh cabinet for weights

Weighing & Measuring

1815-1818
1800-1890, social reformer; civil servant, British

Chadwick, Sir Edwin

1800 - 1890
1813-1858, anaesthetist; epidemiologist; physician, British; English

Snow, John

1813 - 1858

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

Motive Power

1797-1804

Copy of Chamberlen obstetric forceps

Obstetrics, Gynaecology & Contraception

1813

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

Orthopaedics

1795-1820

Model, of Woolf's Water Tube Boiler, 1819

Motive Power

1819

Stanhope square demonstrator, c.1805.

Mathematics

c.1805

Machine-Screw thread making tool, by Henry Maudslay

Hand and Machine Tools

c.1800

Papier mache snuff box featuring semi-nude woman

Smoking

1790-1820

Stipple-engraved portrait of Margaret Bryan and two children

William Nutter

1797

Tin can used for the early preservation of food

Hand and Machine Tools

1812

Marine chronometer by John Arnold and Son

Clockmakers

1795

Silver pill box engraved with a triangular pattern, Birmingham, England, 1801

Wellcome (general)

1801

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

Hand and Machine Tools

c. 1800

Ebony and brass octant.

Navigation

1805-1815

Hedley's experimental model for testing adhesion.

Railway Models

1812
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

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

Thomas Rowlandson

1820

Rutherford maximum and minimum thermometer, 1794

Meteorology

1794

Stipple-engraved portrait of Benjamin Martin

R Page

1815

Two Guillotine blades

Wellcome (general)

1790-1794

Ceramic jar with leather lid labelled "Red Lead"

James Watt's Garret Workshop

1790-1819

Davy Safety lamp

Mining & Ore Dressing

before 1815

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

Hand and Machine Tools

c.1795

Box of putty

James Watt's Garret Workshop

1790-1819

Oval snuff box, England, 1807

Smoking

1807

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

Clockmakers

1794

model, scale 1:8, of press for cutting out blanks

Hand and Machine Tools

c. 1808

Silver ear trumpet, London, England, 1814

Audiology

1814

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

Clockmakers

1791

Terrestrial globe by John and William Cary, London

Clockmakers

1790-1794