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Thumbscrew, France, 1601-1850

1601-1850

Arkwright's Water Frame, 1775

1775

Marine Timekeeper known as 'H5' by John Harrison and Son 1770

1770

Difference Engine No. 1

circa 1832

Cat-o-nine Tails, United Kingdom, 1700-1850

1700-1850

Snuff Box, England, 1771-1830

1771-1830

Cubical polyhedral sundial

1751-1800

Vaginal Speculum for Applying Leeches

1801-1830

Coalbrookdale by Night by Philippe Jacques de Loutherbourg

1801

Small orrery by Benjamin Martin

1738-1777

'Memento mori' watch in the form of a skull, known as the 'Mary Queen of Scots' watch.

1780-1850

Rotative Steam Engine by Boulton and Watt, 1788

1788

Great Northern Railway 4-2-2 locomotive Stirling Single

1870

Early inhaler for ether anaesthesia

1847-1848

Laennec's stethoscope

1815-1825

Model, of Woolf's Water Tube Boiler, 1819

1819

Shaving by Steam

1800-1830

Sewing machine by Elias Howe

circa 1846

Watch made for the 1851 Great Exhibition by Alexander Watkins

1851

Rocket locomotive

1829

James Watt and the Steam Engine Print

1860

Marble statue of George Stephenson, 1852

1852

Transverse folding spectacles

1796-1798

Model of William Murdock's Oscillating Engine, 1785.

1785

Isambard Kingdom Brunel, 1848

1848

Frame saw

1700-1800

Slotting machine

1835

Gold pair-cased watch with outer case chased in a basket-weave pattern by Charles Gretton

1702

Thompson's Revolver Camera

1862

Brass-bound lodestone

1675-1700

Swan necked glass retort

1760-1870

Dental Pelican for Tooth Pulling

1701-1800

Model of the ‘Optimus’ water closet, England

1870

Model paddle wheel engines of the SS 'Great Eastern'

1853-1857

Prototype of the Brougham carriage

1838

Cloth tape measure

1850-1860

Skaife's Pistolgraph Camera

1858

'Wagon' Boiler, 19th Century

1801-1840 (original); 1901 (model)

Napier's Bones

1690

Maudslay 's Lord Chancellor bench micrometer

1805

Replica of Daguerre-Giroux camera

1839 (original); circa 1988 (replica)

Furness Railway steam locomotive 'Coppernob' 0-4-0, No 3, 1846

1846

Britannia statue

1849

Palmer's micrometer (replica)

circa 1848

Early balance spring watch by Thomas Tompion

1675-1679

Refracting telescope with achromatic lens, made by the Dollond family

1760-1775

Plaster model of the lunar surface

1844

Builder's whole, rigged model, of SS 'Great Eastern', 1853-1857

1853-1857

Cammann type binaural stethoscope

1845-1855

Phrenological head

1821