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Coalbrookdale by Night by Philippe Jacques de Loutherbourg

1801

Vaginal Speculum for Applying Leeches

1801-1830

Difference Engine No. 1

circa 1832

Rotative Steam Engine by Boulton and Watt, 1788

1788

Rocket locomotive

1829

Sewing machine by Elias Howe

circa 1846

Britannia statue

1849

Prototype of the Brougham carriage

1838

Early inhaler for ether anaesthesia

1847-1848

Laennec's stethoscope

1815-1825

Model of the "Planet" Locomotive

1830 (original); 1967 (model)

Furness Railway steam locomotive 'Coppernob' 0-4-0, No 3, 1846

1846

Trough battery, 1801-1838

1801-1838

Theodolite used for the Principal Triangulation of Great Britain

1791

Schwann's microscope (no case)

1835

Cooke and Wheatstone 5-needle telegraph, 1837

1837

Cooke and Wheatstone five-needle telegraph

1837

Plaster model of the lunar surface

1844

Palmer's micrometer (replica)

circa 1848

Maudslay 's Lord Chancellor bench micrometer

1805

'Puffing Billy' Locomotive with Tender and Rails

1813-1814

Anatomical Drawing of a Human Skeleton

1840

Phrenological head

1821

Original preparation of quinine by Pelletier and Caveton

1820

Cooke and Wheatstone's four needle telegraph, 1838

1838

Replica of Daguerre-Giroux camera

1839 (original); circa 1988 (replica)

Cooke and Wheatstone’s double-needle telegraph, 1838

1838

Cooke and Wheatstone's double needle telegraph, 1844

1844

Bain's chemical telegraph, 1850.

1850

Sans Pareil

1829

Huskisson Memorial

1831

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

1836-1917, physician, British

Anderson, Elizabeth Garrett

1836 - 1917

Set of sixty miniature heads used in phrenology

1831

'Bell-crank' engine, c. 1799

1795-1805 (original)

Isambard Kingdom Brunel, 1848

1848

Model of William Murdock's Oscillating Engine, 1785.

1785

Machine used for covering wires with silk and cotton, 1837

1837

Model of "Firefly" class locomotive, about 1840

1840

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

Pair of Queen Victoria's white satin slippers, England, 1840-1848

1840-1848

Parkes, Alexander

1813 - 1890

Cocked hat worn by French military surgeon

1790-1831

Freud electronic laughing ball

1990-96