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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

Model of the "Planet" Locomotive

1830 (original); 1967 (model)

'Bell-crank' engine, c. 1799

1795-1805 (original)

Rocket locomotive

1829

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

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

1797-1804

Watt's end measuring machine

1776

Half-penny coin

1799

Edward Jenner's lancets

1801-1823

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

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

'Haystack' Boiler, 1775-1799

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

Machine-Screw thread making tool, by Henry Maudslay

circa 1800

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

Remains of Little Eaton Gangway coal wagon, c 1798

1793-1803

Seal die, Ashby De La Zouch Canal Company

1794

Metric volumetric rule, with 0.05 to 100 litres graduations

1803-1828

model steam locomotive

1826

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

1808

Dudley Adams

1796-1826

Calculating rule by Lenoir in centimetres with conversions

1800-1830

Small screw-cutting device or fusee engine for clock-maker's use

circa 1800

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