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Coalbrookdale by Night

Philippe-Jacques de Loutherbourg

1801

'Puffing Billy' locomotive

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1813-1814

Laennec's stethoscope

Clinical Diagnosis

1815-1825

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

Anatomy & Pathology

1818

Phrenological head

Psychology, Psychiatry & Anthropometry

1821

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

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1825

Maudslay 's Lord Chancellor bench micrometer

Industrial Metrology

1805

Edward Jenner's lancets

Public Health & Hygiene

1801-1823

Musical transposition calculator, in circular slide-rule format

Mathematics

1820

Iron mortsafe lid

Anatomy & Pathology

1801-1822

'Bell-crank' engine, c. 1799

Motive Power

1795-1805 (original)

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

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

Hannah Humphrey

1802

Part of electrostatic telegraph, 1816

Telecommunications

1816

Castlereagh cabinet for weights

Weighing & Measuring

1815-1818
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, of Woolf's Water Tube Boiler, 1819

Motive Power

1819

model locomotion no 1

Railway Models

1825

Stanhope square demonstrator, c.1805.

Mathematics

c.1805

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

Electrotherapy equipment

Therapeutics

1801-1822

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

Wellcome (general)

1801

Ebony and brass octant.

Navigation

1805-1815
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

Davy Safety lamp

Mining & Ore Dressing

before 1815

Oval snuff box, England, 1807

Smoking

1807

Calculator for treadwheel labour, 1823

King George III

1823

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

Hand and Machine Tools

c. 1808

Silver ear trumpet, London, England, 1814

Audiology

1814

Sunderland ware jug decorated with pink lustre ban

Civil Engineering

1813

Cornish penny token, 1811.

Coins, Medals & Tokens

1811

Chemical Lectures

Thomas Rowlandson

c.1810

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

Motive Power

1805-1806

Orrery planetary model designed by William Pearson, 1813-1822

Astronomy

1813-1822

Half-penny coin

Textile Industry

1806

Silver vinaigrette with hinged lid

Pharmacy-ware

1809

cylinder electrical machine, 1810-1817

Telecommunications

1810-1817

reproduction

James Watt's Garret Workshop

1808

Reproduction in wood, Dr Joseph Black

James Watt's Garret Workshop

1809

Stained plaster phrenological bust

Psychology, Psychiatry & Anthropometry

1821