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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

Laennec's stethoscope

Clinical Diagnosis

1815-1825

'Puffing Billy' locomotive

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1813-1814

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

Hannah Humphrey

1802

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

Thomas Rowlandson

1820

Original preparation of quinine

Materia Medica & Pharmacology

1820

Phrenological head

Psychology, Psychiatry & Anthropometry

1821

Old Spitalfields hand loom with jacquard mechanism

Textiles Machinery

1810

Stanhope square demonstrator, c.1805.

Mathematics

c.1805

Edward Jenner's lancets

Public Health & Hygiene

1801-1823
1818-1865, physician, Hungarian

Semmelweis, Ignaz Philipp

1818 - 1865

Maudslay 's Lord Chancellor bench micrometer

Industrial Metrology

1805

Calculator for treadwheel labour, 1823

King George III

1823

Iron mortsafe lid

Anatomy & Pathology

1801-1822

Phrenological head of Francis Gall

Psychology, Psychiatry & Anthropometry

1823

model locomotion no 1

Railway Models

1825

Stained plaster phrenological bust

Psychology, Psychiatry & Anthropometry

1821

Five wooden molecular model balls

Scientific Instruments & Research

c. 1810
1824-1880, surgeon, pathologist; anthropologist, French

Broca, Paul

1824 - 1880

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

Classical & Medieval Medicine

2050-1750 BCE
1813-1858, anaesthetist; epidemiologist; physician, British; English

Snow, John

1813 - 1858

Copy of Chamberlen obstetric forceps

Obstetrics, Gynaecology & Contraception

1813

Oval snuff box, England, 1807

Smoking

1807

Slide rule for exchange of weights and measures

Mathematics

1815

Sunderland ware jug decorated with pink lustre ban

Civil Engineering

1813

Hedley's experimental model for testing adhesion.

Railway Models

1812

Tin can used for the early preservation of food

Hand and Machine Tools

1812

Davy Safety lamp

Mining & Ore Dressing

before 1815

cylinder electrical machine, 1810-1817

Telecommunications

1810-1817

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

Railway Models

1808

Electrotherapy equipment

Therapeutics

1801-1822

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

Hand and Machine Tools

c. 1808

Chemical Lectures

Thomas Rowlandson

c.1810

Pair of turn pin spectacles

Ophthalmology

1823-1825

East Indiaman Herefordshire

William John Huggins

1815

Half-penny coin

Textile Industry

1806

Silver vinaigrette with hinged lid

Pharmacy-ware

1809

Part of electrostatic telegraph, 1816

Telecommunications

1816

Ready reckoner for ship's cargoes

Mathematics

1807

Half-penny coin

Textile Industry

1806

Silver ear trumpet, London, England, 1814

Audiology

1814

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

Wellcome (general)

1801

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

Weighing & Measuring

1815-1818

Model, of Woolf's Water Tube Boiler, 1819

Motive Power

1819

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

Therapeutics

1801

Ebony and brass octant.

Navigation

1805-1815

'Bell-crank' engine, c. 1799

Motive Power

1795-1805 (original)

Cornish penny token, 1811.

Coins, Medals & Tokens

1811

Phrenological head of unidentified individual

Psychology, Psychiatry & Anthropometry

1824