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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

Early inhaler for ether anaesthesia

1847-1848

Sewing machine by Elias Howe

circa 1846

Cammann type binaural stethoscope

1845-1855

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

1846

Model of the "Planet" Locomotive

1830 (original); 1967 (model)

Zoetrope strip: Badgered Cat

1860s

'Bell-crank' engine, c. 1799

1795-1805 (original)

Rocket locomotive

1829

Prototype of the Brougham carriage

1838

Theodolite used for the Principal Triangulation of Great Britain

1791

Phrenological head

1821

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

1775-1785

'Wagon' Boiler, 19th Century

1801-1840 (original); 1901 (model)

'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

Watt's end measuring machine

1776

Half-penny coin

1799

Cranial trephine

1771-1830

Wheatstone concertina

1829-1851

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

1797-1804

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

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

Hand loom

1825-1835

Bullion box containing lead shot

1855

Euston Station gates

1838