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

Anatomy & Pathology

1818

Coalbrookdale by Night

Philippe-Jacques de Loutherbourg

1801

'Puffing Billy' locomotive

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1813-1814

Stephenson's Rocket

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1829

Laennec's stethoscope

Clinical Diagnosis

1815-1825

Joseph Jackson Lister's microscope, London, England, 1826

Microscopy (Wellcome)

1826

Sans Pareil

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1829

Water pipe, for smoking opium or tobacco, China, 1801-1830

Smoking

1801-1830

Shutt End Colliery Railway steam locomotive 'Agenoria'

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1829
1818-1865, physician, Hungarian

Semmelweis, Ignaz Philipp

1818 - 1865

Phrenological head

Psychology, Psychiatry & Anthropometry

1821

Stanhope square demonstrator, c.1805.

Mathematics

c.1805

Vaginal speculum for applying leeches

Clinical Diagnosis

1801-1830

Original preparation of quinine

Materia Medica & Pharmacology

1820

Old Spitalfields hand loom with jacquard mechanism

Textiles Machinery

1810

Edward Jenner's lancets

Public Health & Hygiene

1801-1823

Maudslay 's Lord Chancellor bench micrometer

Industrial Metrology

1805

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

Thomas Rowlandson

1820
1827-1912, surgeon; physician; developer of a system of antiseptic surgery, English; British

Lister, Joseph

1827 - 1912
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
1800-1890, social reformer; civil servant, British

Chadwick, Sir Edwin

1800 - 1890

Silver vinaigrette with hinged lid

Pharmacy-ware

1809
1824-1880, surgeon, pathologist; anthropologist, French

Broca, Paul

1824 - 1880

'Old Age' statue, Staffordshire, England, 1801-1830

Orthopaedics

1801-1830

Copy of Thimonnier's chain-stitch sewing machine, 1830.

Textiles Machinery

1830

Davy Safety lamp

Mining & Ore Dressing

before 1815

Wax plaque showing foetus in the womb

Obstetrics, Gynaecology & Contraception

1801-1830

Calculator for treadwheel labour, 1823

King George III

1823

Oersted Compass Needle, 1828

Science Teaching

1828

Phrenological head, microcephalic

Psychology, Psychiatry & Anthropometry

1820-1830

Stained plaster phrenological bust

Psychology, Psychiatry & Anthropometry

1821

Oval snuff box, England, 1807

Smoking

1807
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

Withering's Botanical microscope late form

Microscopes

1820

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

Motive Power

1805-1806
1822-1911, biostatistician, human geneticist & eugenicist, English, British

Galton, Sir Francis

1822 - 1911

model locomotion no 1

Railway Models

1825

Wax plaque showing a dissected female figure

Obstetrics, Gynaecology & Contraception

1801-1830

Phrenological head of Francis Gall

Psychology, Psychiatry & Anthropometry

1823

Electrotherapy equipment

Therapeutics

1801-1822

Iron mortsafe lid

Anatomy & Pathology

1801-1822

Phrenological head of William Dodd

Psychology, Psychiatry & Anthropometry

1810-1830

Slide rule for exchange of weights and measures

Mathematics

1815

Sunderland ware jug decorated with pink lustre ban

Civil Engineering

1813

Calculating rule by Lenoir in centimetres with conversions

Mathematics

1800-1825

Ebony and brass octant.

Navigation

1805-1815

Tripod for plane table outfit

Surveying

1801-1830
1829-1901, physiologist, German

Fick, Adolf Eugen

1829 - 1901