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'Puffing Billy' locomotive

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1813-1814

Coalbrookdale by Night

Philippe-Jacques de Loutherbourg

1801

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

Anatomy & Pathology

1818
1818-1865, physician, Hungarian

Semmelweis, Ignaz Philipp

1818 - 1865

Old Spitalfields hand loom with jacquard mechanism

Textiles Machinery

1810

Stanhope square demonstrator, c.1805.

Mathematics

c.1805

Maudslay 's Lord Chancellor bench micrometer

Industrial Metrology

1805
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

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

Hannah Humphrey

1802
1800-1890, social reformer; civil servant, British

Chadwick, Sir Edwin

1800 - 1890

Davy Safety lamp

Mining & Ore Dressing

before 1815

Oval snuff box, England, 1807

Smoking

1807

Five wooden molecular model balls

Scientific Instruments & Research

c. 1810

Cornish penny token, 1811.

Coins, Medals & Tokens

1811

Half-penny coin

Textile Industry

1806

Slide rule for exchange of weights and measures

Mathematics

1815

Sunderland ware jug decorated with pink lustre ban

Civil Engineering

1813

36-drawer wooden cabinet, with drawers numbered 1 to 36, from the Viscount Castlereagh Collection for Alicante, Spain

Weighing & Measuring

1815-1818

Silver vinaigrette with hinged lid

Pharmacy-ware

1809

cylinder electrical machine, 1810-1817

Telecommunications

1810-1817

Copy of Chamberlen obstetric forceps

Obstetrics, Gynaecology & Contraception

1813

Part of electrostatic telegraph, 1816

Telecommunications

1816

Half-penny coin

Textile Industry

1806

Ready reckoner for ship's cargoes

Mathematics

1807

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

Hand and Machine Tools

c. 1808

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

Wellcome (general)

1801

Silver ear trumpet, London, England, 1814

Audiology

1814

36-drawer wooden cabinet, with drawers numbered 37 to 72, from the Viscount Castlereagh Collection for Alicante, Spain

Weighing & Measuring

1815-1818

Chronometer with case and accessories

Time Measurement

c. 1800

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

Railway Models

1808

Chemical Lectures

Thomas Rowlandson

c.1810

Small screw-cutting device or fusee engine for clo

Hand and Machine Tools

c. 1800

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

Therapeutics

1801

Sycamore (wood) case with lid, for the Mark of Alicante from the Castlereagh Collection

Weighing & Measuring

1800-1818

Ebony and brass octant.

Navigation

1805-1815

Set of 8 brass nested cup weights for the Mark of Alicante from the Castlereagh Collection

Weighing & Measuring

1800-1818

Set of 7 square brass grain weights and two folded pieces of paper: one of which is inscribed with ‘Alicante’, for the Mark of Alicante from the Castlereagh Collection

Weighing & Measuring

1800-1818

Silver Regency tripod mustard pot, with blue glass liner and plate spoon

Wellcome (general)

1811-1812

Hedley's experimental model for testing adhesion.

Railway Models

1812

Stipple-engraved portrait of Benjamin Martin

R Page

1815

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

Motive Power

1805-1806

East Indiaman Herefordshire

William John Huggins

1815

Tin can used for the early preservation of food

Hand and Machine Tools

1812
1813-1858, anaesthetist; epidemiologist; physician, British; English

Snow, John

1813 - 1858

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

Classical & Medieval Medicine

2050-1750 BCE

Weights and measures

William Henry Pyne

1805

Sheffield penny token, 1812.

Coins, Medals & Tokens

1812

Wollaston slide rule of chemical equivalents, 1814.

Experimental Chemistry

1814

Birmingham workhouse three pence token, 1813.

Coins, Medals & Tokens

1813
1813-1979, manufacturer, Birmingham, Warwickshire, England, British

W and T Avery Limited

1813 - 1979