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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

Difference Engine No 1

Computing & Data Processing

c. 1832

Prototype of the Brougham carriage

Road Transport

1838

Laennec's stethoscope

Clinical Diagnosis

1815-1825

Replica of Daguerre-Giroux camera

Photographic Technology

1839 (original); c. 1988 (replica)

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

Trough battery, 1801-1838

Electricity and Magnetism

1801-1838

Phrenological head

Psychology, Psychiatry & Anthropometry

1821

Machine used for covering wires with silk and cotton, 1837

Textiles Machinery

1837

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

Cooke and Wheatstone 5-needle telegraph, 1837

Telecommunications

1837

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

Thomas Rowlandson

1820

Set of sixty miniature heads used in phrenology

Psychology, Psychiatry & Anthropometry

1831

Anatomical drawing of a human skeleton

John Linnell

1840

Bodmin & Wadebridge Railway 3rd Class open railway carriage, 1834

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1834
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

Silver vinaigrette with hinged lid

Pharmacy-ware

1809

Cooke and Wheatstone five-needle telegraph

Telecommunications

1837

Hand loom

Textile Industry

1825-1835
1824-1880, surgeon, pathologist; anthropologist, French

Broca, Paul

1824 - 1880

Cooke and Wheatstone's ABC telegraph transmitter

Telecommunications

1840

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

Orthopaedics

1801-1830

Type used for original morse telegraph, 1835

Telecommunications

1835

Cooke and Wheatstone's four needle telegraph, 1838

Telecommunications

1838

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

Textiles Machinery

1830
1836-1917, physician, British

Anderson, Elizabeth Garrett

1836 - 1917

Portrait of Ada, Countess of Lovelace

Alfred Edward Chalon

1840

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

Balloon leaving Dover

Edward William Cocks

1835-1840

section of first telegraph cable, 1837

Telecommunications

1837

Phrenological head, microcephalic

Psychology, Psychiatry & Anthropometry

1820-1830

Original preparation of quinine acetate

Materia Medica & Pharmacology

1810-1840

Stained plaster phrenological bust

Psychology, Psychiatry & Anthropometry

1821