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Maudslay 's Lord Chancellor bench micrometer

Industrial Metrology

1805

'Bell-crank' engine, c. 1799

Motive Power

1795-1805 (original)

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

Railway Models

1808

Stanhope square demonstrator, c.1805.

Mathematics

c.1805

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

Hand and Machine Tools

c. 1808

Oval snuff box, England, 1807

Smoking

1807

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

Motive Power

1805-1806

Half-penny coin

Textile Industry

1806

Ready reckoner for ship's cargoes

Mathematics

1807

Half-penny coin

Textile Industry

1806

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

Classical & Medieval Medicine

2050-1750 BCE

Weights and measures

William Henry Pyne

1805

The costume of Great Britain - Smithfield drover

William Henry Pyne

1808

Physionotrace of a man

Photographs

c. 1808

Pamphlet - "The description of Lane's improved por

Microscopes

1806

Oil jar, Egypt, 1580-1350BCE

Classical & Medieval Medicine

2000-1350 BCE

Table engine model, scale approx. 1:2

Motive Power

1807; 1815

Nipple shield

Nursing & Hospital Furnishings

1805
Brunel, Isambard Kingdom

Brunel, Isambard Kingdom

1806 - 1859

Invitation to Nelson's funeral, London, England, 1806

Wellcome (general)

1805-1806

1/4-repeater in case

Time Measurement

1803

Scale Model of Machine for Printing Textiles, 1805

Textiles Machinery

1805

Square pavement brick from Babylonia (Southern Iraq), 2nd millennium BC.

Building Construction

2000-1001 BCE

Mummy of a peregrine falcon, Egypt, 2000-1001 BCE

Classical & Medieval Medicine

2000-1001 BCE
3ft length of rail from the Pen-y-darren tramway, Near Abercynon

Length of rail from the Pen-y-darren tramway, Near Abercynon

Railway Infrastructure

1804

Bronze medal commemorating Joseph Priestley, 1804

Coins, Medals & Tokens

1804

Portrait: engraving, stipple, Linnaeus, Knight of

Henry Hoppner Meyer

1806

Fire at the Albion Mills, Blackfriars Bridge on 3 March 1791

Art

1808

William Woodville, M.D. F.R.S. Author of Medical Botany

Thomas A Woolnoth

1806

Bronze prize medal of the Imperial Academy, Genoa,

Wellcome Medals

1808

Travelling trunk belonging to Clara Mingo

Miscellanea & Curiosities

pre 1806

Stone slab with seven holes for cosmetic ointments, Egypt, 1991-1786 BCE

Classical & Medieval Medicine

1991-1786 BCE

Hydrometer by Robert Atkins, 136 Fenchurch Street,

Experimental Chemistry

1803

Mummy of a crocodile, Egypt, 2000-1001 BCE

Classical & Medieval Medicine

2000-1001 BCE
Model representing Murray's portable beam engine, by James Fox, Derby, 1808

Model of Murray's portable beam engine

Motive Power

1808

Model of life-boat, 1804

Water Transport

1804

Right angled pipe from a model of Maudslay's 1807 table engine

Motive Power

1807

Lignum Vitae saw

Hand and Machine Tools

1804-1807

Sterling silver pap boat

Nursing & Hospital Furnishings

1804

Rod from the model of Murray's portable beam engine

Motive Power

1808
3ft length of rail from the Pen-y-darren tramway, Near Abercynon

Length of rail from the Pen-y-darren tramway, Near Abercynon

Railway Infrastructure

1804

Wrestler's belt presented in Cumberland, probably

Orthopaedics

1803

Trevithick's High Pressure Steam Engine and Boiler excluding flywheel

Motive Power

1805-1806
Lignum Vitae saw, yard No. 647, built by Henry Maudslay for the Block Mills, Portsmouth Naval Dockyard, 1804-1807.

Lignum Vitae Saw

Hand and Machine Tools

1804-1807

Engraving showing 'The Ball which killed Lord Nelson', England, 1805

Wellcome (general)

1805

The costume of Great Britain - Dustman

William Henry Pyne

1808

‘Pass-room, Bridewell’, print, London, England, 1808

Ackermann and Company

1808

Engraving of David Hume

Art

1806

The Costume of Great Britain: Waggon

William Henry Pyne

1808

The Observatory at Delhi

Art

1808