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Arkwright's Water Frame, 1775

1775

Vaginal Speculum for Applying Leeches

1801-1830

Snuff Box, England, 1771-1830

1771-1830

Coalbrookdale by Night by Philippe Jacques de Loutherbourg

1801

Rotative Steam Engine by Boulton and Watt, 1788

1788

Laennec's stethoscope

1815-1825

Lunardi's second balloon ascending from St. George's Fields, 1785

1785-1790

Original preparation of quinine by Pelletier and Caveton

1820

Phrenological head of Francis Gall

1823

Phrenological head

1821

Arkwright's prototype spinning machine, 1769.

1769

Theodolite used for the Principal Triangulation of Great Britain

1791

Rocket locomotive

1829

Medal commemorating the Montgolfier unmanned balloon ascent

1783

Medal, Blanchard's balloon ascent, Nuremberg, Germany, 1787

1785

Medal commemorating balloon flight of Blanchard at Frankfurt

1785

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

Watt's end measuring machine

1776

Remains of Little Eaton Gangway coal wagon, c 1798

1793-1803

Seal die, Ashby De La Zouch Canal Company

1794

Leber-pattern dental forceps

1770-1800

Netsuke depicting man with moxa on leg

1771-1800

Spoon with folding handle

1778

Metric volumetric rule, with 0.05 to 100 litres graduations

1803-1828

'Bell-crank' engine, c. 1799

1795-1805 (original)

Conjectural model of Trevithick's locomotive 'Catch-me-who-can'

1808

Calculating rule by Lenoir in centimetres with conversions

1800-1830

Oval enamelled box, England, 1761-1820

1761-1820

Model of William Murdock's Oscillating Engine, 1785.

1785

Wood and iron truss for sculpture machine

1790-1819

9" Dovetail saw with open mahogany handle, brass back and steel blade

1790-1819

Perspective drawing apparatus, incomplete, in integral mahogany case

1760-1770

Piece of wood, one side partly cut out

1790-1819

Marble reproduction of bust

1790-1819

Plaster urn

1790-1819

Plaster cast of Venus

1790-1819

Reproduction in wood. No 127

1808

Plaster mould of head of Apollo

1790-1819

Socrates

1790-1819

plaster cast of Apollo

1790-1819

Reproduction alabaster bust of Homer

1790-1819

Plaster bust

1790-1819

Reproduction in wood, Dr Joseph Black

1809

Reproduction of Egyptian head in mahogany

1790-1819

Plaster mould

1790-1819

Wax male figure showing the arteries of the body, Florence, Italy, 1776-1780

1776-1780

Wax plaque showing a dissected female figure

1801-1830

Wax plaque showing foetus in the womb

1801-1830

Plaque showing the development of a human embryo

1801-1830

Obstetric forceps

1780-1820