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Arkwright's Water Frame, 1775

1775

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

1770

Vaginal Speculum for Applying Leeches

1801-1830

Great Northern Railway 4-2-2 locomotive Stirling Single

1870

Coalbrookdale by Night by Philippe Jacques de Loutherbourg

1801

Cubical polyhedral sundial

1751-1800

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

1780-1850

Thompson's Revolver Camera

1862

Difference Engine No. 1

circa 1832

Snuff Box, England, 1771-1830

1771-1830

Cloth tape measure

1850-1860

Sewing machine by Elias Howe

circa 1846

Schwann's microscope (no case)

1835

Morse key, 1850-1870.

1850-1870

Bain's chemical telegraph, 1850.

1850

Dental Pelican for Tooth Pulling

1701-1800

One of the First Rechargeable Batteries, about 1860

1860

Operative Society of Bricklayers

1866-1870

Model of the ‘Optimus’ water closet, England

1870

Cammann type binaural stethoscope

1845-1855

Skaife's Pistolgraph Camera

1858

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

1846

Camera Obscura

1701-1752

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

1853-1857

Early inhaler for ether anaesthesia

1847-1848

Prototype of the Brougham carriage

1838

Rotative Steam Engine by Boulton and Watt, 1788

1788

Magnetic key, 1850-1870

1850-1870

Netsuke depicting man with moxa on leg

1771-1800

Laennec's stethoscope

1815-1825

Columnar Engine, 1862

1862

Watt's end measuring machine

1776

Barnard Tompion clock

1708

Trough battery, 1801-1838

1801-1838

Vulcanite telephone wire insulators, 1850-1870

1850-1870

Hand loom

1825-1835

Double beam engine model

1840-1851

Model paddle wheel engines of the SS 'Great Eastern'

1853-1857

Portrait bust of Henry Maudslay

before 1857

Domestic Sewing Machine for chain stitich

1868

Carving instrument used to make ivory dentures, Europe, 1701-1850

1701-1850

Palmer's micrometer (replica)

circa 1848

Chinese celestial clockwork globe

1830

Replica of Daguerre-Giroux camera

1839 (original); circa 1988 (replica)

Model of human eye

1870

Original preparation of quinine by Pelletier and Caveton

1820

Medal commemorating the first manned balloon flights

1784

'Haystack' Boiler, 1775-1799

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

Machine-Screw thread making tool, by Henry Maudslay

circa 1800

Refracting telescope with achromatic lens, made by the Dollond family

1760-1775