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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

Maudslay 's Lord Chancellor bench micrometer

Industrial Metrology

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

Chadwick, Sir Edwin

1800 - 1890

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

Hannah Humphrey

1802

Musical transposition calculator, in circular slide-rule format

Mathematics

1820

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

Hand and Machine Tools

c. 1800

Sunderland ware jug decorated with pink lustre ban

Civil Engineering

1813

Under-painted horn pair-cased watch by George Flote

Clockmakers

1800
1818-1865, physician, Hungarian

Semmelweis, Ignaz Philipp

1818 - 1865

Original preparation of quinine

Materia Medica & Pharmacology

1820

Old Spitalfields hand loom with jacquard mechanism

Textiles Machinery

1810
1813-1858, anaesthetist; epidemiologist; physician, British; English

Snow, John

1813 - 1858

Model, of Woolf's Water Tube Boiler, 1819

Motive Power

1819

Chinese planisphere with pamplet, 1819

Astronomy

1819

Tin can used for the early preservation of food

Hand and Machine Tools

1812

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

Thomas Rowlandson

1820

Ebony and brass octant.

Navigation

1805-1815

'Bell-crank' engine, c. 1799

Motive Power

1795-1805 (original)

Slide rule for exchange of weights and measures

Mathematics

1815

Travelling smoking set, Europe, 1815-1820

Smoking

1815-1820

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

Stanhope square demonstrator, c.1805.

Mathematics

c.1805

Davy Safety lamp

Mining & Ore Dressing

before 1815

Part of electrostatic telegraph, 1816

Telecommunications

1816

Cornish penny token, 1811.

Coins, Medals & Tokens

1811

East Indiaman Herefordshire

William John Huggins

1815

Oval snuff box, England, 1807

Smoking

1807

Gold and enamel half-quarter repeater watch by Brockbanks

Clockmakers

1812

Castlereagh cabinet for weights

Weighing & Measuring

1815-1818

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

Motive Power

1805-1806

Stipple-engraved portrait of Benjamin Martin

R Page

1815

Half-penny coin

Textile Industry

1806

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

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

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

Wellcome (general)

1801

Silver ear trumpet, London, England, 1814

Audiology

1814

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

Therapeutics

1801

Hedley's experimental model for testing adhesion.

Railway Models

1812

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

Classical & Medieval Medicine

2050-1750 BCE

Galvani's voltaic pile

Therapeutics

1800-1820

Physionotrace of a man

Photographs

c. 1808

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

Weighing & Measuring

1800-1818

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

Weighing & Measuring

1800-1818