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Coalbrookdale by Night by Philippe Jacques de Loutherbourg

1801

Vaginal Speculum for Applying Leeches

1801-1830

Rotative Steam Engine by Boulton and Watt, 1788

1788

Rocket locomotive

1829

Laennec's stethoscope

1815-1825

Model of the "Planet" Locomotive

1830 (original); 1967 (model)

Theodolite used for the Principal Triangulation of Great Britain

1791

Maudslay 's Lord Chancellor bench micrometer

1805

'Puffing Billy' Locomotive with Tender and Rails

1813-1814

Phrenological head

1821

Original preparation of quinine by Pelletier and Caveton

1820

Sans Pareil

1829

Shutt End Colliery Railway steam locomotive 'Agenoria'

1829

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

1801-1830

'Haystack' Boiler, 1775-1799

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

Machine-Screw thread making tool, by Henry Maudslay

circa 1800

Pendulum clock designed by Galileo in 1642 and made by his son in 1649, model.

1642-1649 (original); 1883 (model)

Isaac Newton’s Reflecting Telescope (replica)

1668; 1924

'Bell-crank' engine, c. 1799

1795-1805 (original)

Model of William Murdock's Oscillating Engine, 1785.

1785

active 1828-1947, marine & aeronautical navigational instrument maker, London, England, British

Henry Hughes and Son Limited

1828 - 1947

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

1808

Parkes, Alexander

1813 - 1890

Freud electronic laughing ball

1990-96

Telescope by Galileo (replica)

1610; 1923

1819-1868, dentist who used anaesthetic; physician, American

Morton, William Thomas Green

1819 - 1868

Copy of Thimonnier's chain-stitch sewing machine, 1830

1830

‘Medico-Electrical Machine’ by Nairne and Blunt

1782-1793

model locomotion no 1

1825

Pocket globe in case by Dudley Adams

1799-1802

Atmospheric Engine by John Smeaton, 1772

1772 (original); 1919 (model)

Vacuum Gauge by Boulton and Watt

1794

Two Perkins 'tractors'

1795-1805

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

Edward Jenner's lancets

1801-1823

Bridge used to span the River Gaunless at West Auckland

1823-1825

Steam locomotive used at Hetton Colliery

1822

1827-1912, surgeon; physician; developer of a system of antiseptic surgery, English; British

Lister, Joseph

1827 - 1912

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

1797-1804

East Indiaman Herefordshire

1815

Surveyor's pocket sextant.

1795-1805

Babbage, Charles

1791 - 1871

1818-1865, physician, Hungarian

Semmelweis, Ignaz Philipp

1818 - 1865

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

1820

Cuff-type compound microscope

1790-1810

Copy of Chamberlen obstetric forceps

1813

100 Link Steel Surveying Chain, 1784.

1784

Richard Grindall's combined knife and fork, Europe, 1795-1820

1795-1820

Mobile cellular telephone (Motorola 'Flip Phone') model no. F09SQD8955AB

1990-95

Patient of Edward Jenner; First person to received Vaccination

Phipps, James

1788 - 1853