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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

Rocket locomotive

1829

Prototype of the Brougham carriage

1838

Laennec's stethoscope

1815-1825

Model of the "Planet" Locomotive

1830 (original); 1967 (model)

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

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

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)

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

Parkes, Alexander

1813 - 1890

Cocked hat worn by French military surgeon

1790-1831

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

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