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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

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

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

Watt's end measuring machine

1776

Half-penny coin

1799

Cranial trephine

1771-1830

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

Wax male figure showing the muscles of the body

1776-1780

Two Perkins 'tractors'

1795-1805

Edward Jenner's lancets

1801-1823

Compass

1800

Marine chronometer by Brockbanks

1802

Pocket globe in case by Dudley Adams

1799-1802

Model, of Woolf's Water Tube Boiler, 1819

1819

'Haystack' Boiler, 1775-1799

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

Machine-Screw thread making tool, by Henry Maudslay

circa 1800

Arkwright's Water Frame

1775

Isaac Newton’s Reflecting Telescope (replica)

1668; 1924

Telescope by Galileo (replica)

1610; 1923

'Puffing Billy' Locomotive with Tender and Rails

1813-1814

Water Pipe, for Smoking Opium or Tobacco, China, 1801-1830

1801-1830

Remains of Little Eaton Gangway coal wagon, c 1798

1793-1803

Seal die, Ashby De La Zouch Canal Company

1794

Netsuke depicting man with moxa on leg

1771-1800

'Dr Syntax and his wife making an experiment in pneumatics', print, London, England, 1820

1820

Joseph Priestley LLD FRS

1782

Praeclarissimus Isaacus Newton Eques

1787

Metric volumetric rule, with 0.05 to 100 litres graduations

1803-1828

Chronometer watch in silver case by John Arnold and Son

hallmarked 1788

Novelty model

1955; 1830

model steam locomotive

1826

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

1808

Skull saw, part of trephination set

1771-1830

Lenticular, part of trephination set

1771-1830

Tire fonds, part of trephination set

1771-1830

Weights and measures

1805

Dudley Adams

1796-1826

Calculating rule by Lenoir in centimetres with conversions

1800-1830

Straight spectacles

1796-1797

Transverse folding spectacles

1796-1798