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
Snuff Box, England, 1771-1830
1771-1830
Rotative Steam Engine by Boulton and Watt, 1788
1788
Difference Engine No. 1
circa 1832
Model of the "Planet" Locomotive
1830 (original); 1967 (model)
'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
Model of Rotative Beam Engine by William Tongue, c. 1804
1797-1804
Watt's end measuring machine
1776
Half-penny coin
1799
Hand loom
1825-1835
Edward Jenner's lancets
1801-1823
Entrance into Manchester across Water Street
1831
Trough battery, 1801-1838
1801-1838
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
Model, of Woolf's Water Tube Boiler, 1819
1819
Arkwright's Water Frame
1775
Euston Station gates
1838
Cocked hat worn by French military surgeon
1790-1831
'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
Cooke and Wheatstone 5-needle telegraph, 1837
1837
Isaac Newton’s Reflecting Telescope (replica)
1668; 1924
Telescope by Galileo (replica)
1610; 1923
Water Pipe, for Smoking Opium or Tobacco, China, 1801-1830
1801-1830
'Puffing Billy' Locomotive with Tender and Rails
1813-1814
Anatomical Drawing of a Human Skeleton
1840
Remains of Little Eaton Gangway coal wagon, c 1798
1793-1803