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Coalbrookdale by Night

Philippe-Jacques de Loutherbourg

1801

Moon globe by John Russell;England;1797

Astronomy

1797

Trevithick's model road locomotive engine

Road Transport

1796-1802

Maudslay 's Lord Chancellor bench micrometer

Industrial Metrology

1805
1800-1890, social reformer; civil servant, British

Chadwick, Sir Edwin

1800 - 1890

Pocket globe in case by Dudley Adams

Astronomy

1799-1802

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

Hannah Humphrey

1802

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

Hand and Machine Tools

c. 1800

Under-painted horn pair-cased watch by George Flote

Clockmakers

1800

Marine chronometer by John Arnold and Son

Clockmakers

1795

Old Spitalfields hand loom with jacquard mechanism

Textiles Machinery

1810

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

Motive Power

1797-1804

'Bell-crank' engine, c. 1799

Motive Power

1795-1805 (original)

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

Railway Models

1808
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

Silver pill box, Birmingham, England, 1797

Wellcome (general)

1797

Stanhope square demonstrator, c.1805.

Mathematics

c.1805

Divers Projets

Art

1798

Half-penny coin

Textile Industry

1799

Oval snuff box, England, 1807

Smoking

1807

Surveyor's pocket sextant.

Surveying

1795-1805

Trevithick's High Pressure Steam Engine and Boiler, c. 1806

Motive Power

1805-1806

Half-penny coin

Textile Industry

1806

Silver vinaigrette with hinged lid

Pharmacy-ware

1809

Half-penny coin

Textile Industry

1799

Ready reckoner for ship's cargoes

Mathematics

1807

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

Hand and Machine Tools

c. 1808

Half-penny coin

Textile Industry

1806

Two Perkins 'tractors'

Therapeutics

1795-1805

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

Wellcome (general)

1801

Leaflet for a work entitled 'Cases of successful practice with Perkin's Patent Metallic Tractors'.

Therapeutics

1801

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

Classical & Medieval Medicine

2050-1750 BCE

Physionotrace of a man

Photographs

c. 1808

Straight spectacles, silver, hallmarked London 179

Ophthalmology

1796-1797

Transverse folding spectacles, silver, hallmarked

Ophthalmology

1796-1798

Chronometer in Gold Case by Thomas Earnsham, 1795-1810

Time Measurement

1795-1810

Steel automatic lancet, possibly veterinary, 1797

Therapeutics

1797

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

Dentistry

1795

Stipple-engraved portrait of Margaret Bryan and two children

William Nutter

1797

Weights and measures

William Henry Pyne

1805

Five wooden molecular model balls

Scientific Instruments & Research

c. 1810

Chemical Lectures

Thomas Rowlandson

c.1810

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

Coins, Medals & Tokens

1795

Invitation to Nelson's funeral, London, England, 1806

Wellcome (general)

1805-1806

'Haystack' Boiler, 1775-1799

Motive Power

1775-1799 (original); 1900-1907 (model)

Trevithick's High Pressure Steam Engine and Boiler excluding flywheel

Motive Power

1805-1806

Box-type Camera Obscura

Optics

1795-1805

Middlesex token, London Corresponding Society, 1795.

Coins, Medals & Tokens

1795

A Singular Operation

William Nutter

1795
1799-1865, active 1812-1865, physician; army medical officer, English

Barry, James

1795 - 1865