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Arkwright's Water Frame, 1775

1775

Vaginal Speculum for Applying Leeches

1801-1830

Coalbrookdale by Night by Philippe Jacques de Loutherbourg

1801

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

1770

Cubical polyhedral sundial

1751-1800

Snuff Box, England, 1771-1830

1771-1830

Rotative Steam Engine by Boulton and Watt, 1788

1788

Orrery made by John Rowley for the Earl of Orrery

1712-1713

Model of the "Planet" Locomotive

1830 (original); 1967 (model)

'Bell-crank' engine, c. 1799

1795-1805 (original)

Rocket locomotive

1829

Dental Pelican for Tooth Pulling

1701-1800

Watch in a puddingstone, gold and diamond case by John Leroux

1775-1785

Theodolite used for the Principal Triangulation of Great Britain

1791

Phrenological head

1821

Model of Rotative Beam Engine by William Tongue, c. 1804

1797-1804

Watt's end measuring machine

1776

Half-penny coin

1799

Ivory dildo, complete with contrivance for simulating ejaculation, with cloth bag

1701-1800

Oak medicine chest, Europe, 1701-1800

1701-1800

Edward Jenner's lancets

1801-1823

Small orrery by Benjamin Martin

1738-1777

Clarke's Hydrometer (c. 1755)

1755

Compass

1800

Marine chronometer by Brockbanks

1802

Pocket globe in case by Dudley Adams

1799-1802

Lancet owned by Edward Jenner

1720-1800

Petit type tourniquet

1701-1800

Cranial trephine

1771-1830

Wax male figure showing the veins and some organs of the body, Florence, Italy, 1776-1780

1776-1780

Laennec's stethoscope

1815-1825

Wax male figure showing the muscles of the body

1776-1780

Two Perkins 'tractors'

1795-1805

Model, of Woolf's Water Tube Boiler, 1819

1819

Arkwright's Water Frame

1775

Anamorphosis Painting of Perspective View of a Ship Model

1744-1774

Camera Obscura

1701-1752

Longcase clock by James and John Harrison

1728

Longcase clock movement by John and James Harrison

1726-1728

'Haystack' Boiler, 1775-1799

1775-1799 (original); 1900-1907 (model)

Machine-Screw thread making tool, by Henry Maudslay

circa 1800

Arkwright's prototype spinning machine, 1769.

1769

Refracting telescope with achromatic lens, made by the Dollond family

1760-1775

George III's compound engine

1762

Silver microscope by George Adams, c. 1761.

1763

George III's double-barrelled air pump

1761

Cash sword of coins for protecting new born baby from harmful spirits

1701-1800

Compound microscope

1701-1723

Isaac Newton’s Reflecting Telescope (replica)

1668; 1924

Telescope by Galileo (replica)

1610; 1923