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Stephenson's Rocket

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1829

Coalbrookdale by Night

Philippe-Jacques de Loutherbourg

1801

'Puffing Billy' locomotive

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1813-1814

Laennec's stethoscope

Clinical Diagnosis

1815-1825

Vaginal speculum for applying leeches

Clinical Diagnosis

1801-1830

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

Smoking

1801-1830

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

Anatomy & Pathology

1818

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

Microscopy (Wellcome)

1826

Phrenological head

Psychology, Psychiatry & Anthropometry

1821

Edward Jenner's lancets

Public Health & Hygiene

1801-1823

Shutt End Colliery Railway steam locomotive 'Agenoria'

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1829

Sans Pareil

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1829

Musical transposition calculator, in circular slide-rule format

Mathematics

1820

Iron mortsafe lid

Anatomy & Pathology

1801-1822

Maudslay 's Lord Chancellor bench micrometer

Industrial Metrology

1805

'Bell-crank' engine, c. 1799

Motive Power

1795-1805 (original)

Steam locomotive No. 1 'Locomotion', Stockton & Darlington Railway

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1825

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

Phrenological head of Francis Gall

Psychology, Psychiatry & Anthropometry

1823

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

Textiles Machinery

1830

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

Hannah Humphrey

1802

Phrenological head, microcephalic

Psychology, Psychiatry & Anthropometry

1820-1830

Part of electrostatic telegraph, 1816

Telecommunications

1816

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

Copy of Chamberlen obstetric forceps

Obstetrics, Gynaecology & Contraception

1813
1822-1911, biostatistician, human geneticist & eugenicist, English, British

Galton, Sir Francis

1822 - 1911

model locomotion no 1

Railway Models

1825

Model, of Woolf's Water Tube Boiler, 1819

Motive Power

1819

Stanhope square demonstrator, c.1805.

Mathematics

c.1805

Wax plaque of woman showing foetus in the womb

Obstetrics, Gynaecology & Contraception

1801-1830

Wax plaque showing foetus in the womb

Obstetrics, Gynaecology & Contraception

1801-1830

Oersted Compass Needle, 1828

Science Teaching

1828

Tin can used for the early preservation of food

Hand and Machine Tools

1812

Deck-watch used by Capt. William Parry during his attempt to reach the North Pole, 1827

Clockmakers

1823

Water frame spindle

Textile Industry

1800-1830

Electrotherapy equipment

Therapeutics

1801-1822

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

Tripod for plane table outfit

Surveying

1801-1830
1827-1912, surgeon; physician; developer of a system of antiseptic surgery, English; British

Lister, Joseph

1827 - 1912
active 1829-1895, microbiologist; chemist, French

Pasteur, Louis

1822 - 1895

Hedley's experimental model for testing adhesion.

Railway Models

1812

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

Thomas Rowlandson

1820

Stipple-engraved portrait of Benjamin Martin

R Page

1815