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Coalbrookdale by Night by Philippe Jacques de Loutherbourg

1801

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

'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)

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

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

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

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

1795-1820

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

1990-95

Chronometer in Gold Case by Thomas Earnsham, 1795-1810

1795-1810

Richard Arkwright

1790

1800-1890, social reformer; civil servant, British

Chadwick, Sir Edwin

1800 - 1890

Remains of Little Eaton Gangway coal wagon, c 1798

1793-1803

Model, of Woolf's Water Tube Boiler, 1819

1819

Piston and Rod, from Newcomen Pumping Engine 'Old Sarah'

1815

Boring machine, Yard No. 642

1804-1807

Pair-cased pocket watch in pinchbeck and leather outer casing with verge escapement

1705-1737

Caroline Herschel's telescope, 1795-1816

1795-1816

1813-1979, manufacturer, Birmingham, Warwickshire, England, British

W and T Avery Limited

1813 - 1979

Stipple-engraved portrait of Margaret Bryan and two children

1797

Divers Projets

1798

Two Guillotine blades and plinth

1790-1794

Oval snuff box, England, 1807

1807

Set of magnetical apparatus in case, by Adams

1790

Toothbrush set

1791-1792

Trevithick's High Pressure Steam Engine and Boiler, c. 1806

1805-1806

Wax anatomical model of a female showing internal organs, Florence, Italy, 1818

1818

1815-1852, mathematician; computer pioneer, British

Lovelace, Ada

1815 - 1852