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Silver vinaigrette with hinged lid

Pharmacy-ware

1809

Slide rule for exchange of weights and measures

Mathematics

1815

Half-penny coin

Textile Industry

1806

'Puffing Billy' locomotive

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1813-1814

Stanhope square demonstrator, c.1805.

Mathematics

c.1805

Davy Safety lamp

Mining & Ore Dressing

before 1815

Copy of Chamberlen obstetric forceps

Obstetrics, Gynaecology & Contraception

1813

Half-penny coin

Textile Industry

1806

Ready reckoner for ship's cargoes

Mathematics

1807

Oval snuff box, England, 1807

Smoking

1807

Old Spitalfields hand loom with jacquard mechanism

Textiles Machinery

1810

Silver ear trumpet, London, England, 1814

Audiology

1814

Sunderland ware jug decorated with pink lustre ban

Civil Engineering

1813

Maudslay 's Lord Chancellor bench micrometer

Industrial Metrology

1805

Ebony and brass octant.

Navigation

1805-1815

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

Hand and Machine Tools

c. 1808

Silver Regency tripod mustard pot, with blue glass liner and plate spoon

Wellcome (general)

1811-1812

Hedley's experimental model for testing adhesion.

Railway Models

1812

Cloud study of light cirrostratus, above cumulus

Luke Howard

1811

Stipple-engraved portrait of Benjamin Martin

R Page

1815

Cloud study of nimbus against light of sun

Luke Howard

1808

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

Railway Models

1808

Weights and measures

William Henry Pyne

1805

East Indiaman Herefordshire

William John Huggins

1815

Chemical Lectures

Thomas Rowlandson

c.1810

Crystal structure represented by an arrangement of seven solid ovoids in a circular configuration

Experimental Chemistry

1812-1813

Crystal structure represented by an arrangement of ten spheres

Experimental Chemistry

1812-1813

Binks' burettes and a Wollaston slide rule, 1814.

Experimental Chemistry

1814
Lignum Vitae saw, yard No. 647 (Base 4'x 4'x 10'9"H)

Lignum Vitae Saw

Hand and Machine Tools

c. 1805

Token, copper, 29mm diameter. Middlesex halfpenny,

Coins, Medals & Tokens

1814

Portrait: engraving, stipple, Linnaeus, Knight of

Henry Hoppner Meyer

1806

Silhouette of child

Photographs

c. 1810

Silhouette of a woman

Photographs

c. 1810

Semi-circular washer, for model of Cylinder mould paper-making machine

Papermaking

1809; 1984

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

Wellcome (general)

1805-1806

Combination saw and forceps used in trephination

Surgery

1812-1815

Physionotrace of a man

Photographs

c. 1808

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

Classical & Medieval Medicine

1991-1786 BCE

Exechequer tally, 1812

Mathematics

1812

Surgical instrument set, London, England, 1810-1812

Surgery

1810-1812

Mummy of a crocodile, Egypt, 2000-1001 BCE

Classical & Medieval Medicine

2000-1001 BCE

Wollaston slide rule of chemical equivalents

Experimental Chemistry

1814

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

Building Construction

2000-1001 BCE

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

Motive Power

1805-1806

Clarke's Export Hydrometer (dated 1815) by DRING &

Experimental Chemistry

1815

Lignum Vitae saw, yard No. 647 (Base 4'x 4'x 10'9"

Hand and Machine Tools

c. 1805
Model representing Murray's portable beam engine, by James Fox, Derby, 1808

Model of Murray's portable beam engine

Motive Power

1808

Oil jar, Egypt, 1580-1350BCE

Classical & Medieval Medicine

2000-1350 BCE

Part of wreath sent by Napoleon, France and Italy, 1814-1815

Wellcome (general)

1814-1815

Replica of Scoresby's 'Marine Diver', Water Sampler, 1811

Oceanography

1811 (original)