Arkwright's Water Frame, 1775
1775
Vaginal Speculum for Applying Leeches
1801-1830
Whitworth Planing Machine
circa 1842
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
'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
Difference Engine No. 1
circa 1832
Builder's whole, rigged model, of SS 'Great Eastern', 1853-1857
1853-1857
Sewing machine by Elias Howe
circa 1846
Early inhaler for ether anaesthesia
1847-1848
Furness Railway steam locomotive 'Coppernob' 0-4-0, No 3, 1846
1846
Model of the "Planet" Locomotive
1830 (original); 1967 (model)
Cammann type binaural stethoscope
1845-1855
Zoetrope strip: Badgered Cat
1860s
'Bell-crank' engine, c. 1799
1795-1805 (original)
Rocket locomotive
1829
Prototype of the Brougham carriage
1838
'Wagon' Boiler, 19th Century
1801-1840 (original); 1901 (model)
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
'Imperial' Printing Press made by J. Cope and Sherwin
1820-1840
James Watt and the Steam Engine Print
1860
The Great Exhibition Polka 1851
1851
Model of Rotative Beam Engine by William Tongue, c. 1804
1797-1804
Watt's end measuring machine
1776
Half-penny coin
1799
Wheatstone concertina
1829-1851
Hand loom
1825-1835
Edward Jenner's lancets
1801-1823
Entrance into Manchester across Water Street
1831
Clarke's Hydrometer (c. 1755)
1755
Trough battery, 1801-1838
1801-1838
Wheatstone's portable ABC telegraph, 1858
1858
One of the First Rechargeable Batteries, about 1860
1860
Compass
1800
Marine chronometer by Brockbanks
1802
Pocket globe in case by Dudley Adams
1799-1802
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
Schwann's microscope (no case)
1835
Wax male figure showing the muscles of the body
1776-1780
Two Perkins 'tractors'
1795-1805
Dandy cart and horse
1845-1855
Model, of Woolf's Water Tube Boiler, 1819
1819
'The British Nave' at the Great Exhibition of 1851
1851