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Orrery by Thomas Wright

King George III

1735-1745

Culpeper microscope

Microscopy (Wellcome)

1738

Ornamental turning 'rose-engine' lathe

Hand and Machine Tools

1740

Demainbray's compound microscope

Microscopes

1745

Model wagon, horse-drawn quarry truck

Railway Models

1730

English glass celestial globe, 1739

Astronomy

1739

Triple-cased quarter-repeater watch by Paul du Pin

Clockmakers

1739

Terrestrial globe by John Senex

Astronomy

1738

Gold and leather pair-cased quarter-repeater cylinder watch by George Graham

Clockmakers

1745

Majolica pharmacy jar

Medical Ceramic-ware

1730-1750

Case for William Roy’s standard scale, 1742

Weighing & Measuring

1742

Demainbray's convex lens

King George III

1750

Hadley's Gregorian reflecting telescope, c.1740

Astronomy

1740-1744

Tumbler, horn, with silver strip around rim, 1742

Wellcome (general)

1742

Doorcase 56 Lincoln’s Inn Fields

Temporary Exhibitions

c.1750

Glass cylinder, containing a tap and slipwire

King George III

c. 1750

Copy of clay liver used for divination, original from Babylon, 2050-1750 BCE

Classical & Medieval Medicine

2050-1750 BCE
Large orrery on pedestal base with with gilded horse head decorations beneath the calendar ring and glazed cover, original maker unknown, enlarged by Thomas Wright, Fleet Street, London, 1733. Inscribed 'All the Machinery of this instrument was made new in 1733 by Tho Wright Instrument maker to His MAJESTY GEORGE II'.

George II's Grand Orrery

King George III

1733

Medal commemorating Laura Maria Caterina Bassi, Italy, 1732

Wellcome Medals

1732

Rose engine lathe

Hand and Machine Tools

c.1740

Steel Mill used with Flint for Mine Lighting, 1730-1750

Mining & Ore Dressing

1730-1750

Oil jar, Egypt, 1580-1350BCE

Classical & Medieval Medicine

2000-1350 BCE

Oval Concave Mirror (c.1740-50), in sharkskin case

Optics

1740-1750

Pocket Stop Watch in Gold Case by George Graham, 1730-1748

Time Measurement

1730-1748

HMS Victory

.Unattributed

1744

Machina Coelestis, or the Great Orrery...

Clement Lemprière

1730

'Le Chirurgien de Campagne', engraving by Thomas Major, France, 1747

David Teniers

1747

Candle douter, for extinguishing candles

Lighting

c. 1750

Wooden backstaff

Navigation

1730; 1967
Remains of the models of silk machinery introduced from Italy by Sir Thomas Lombe, Derby, England, c. 1732; the remains being: a reel, three spindles with bobbins and flyers and a segment of a circular frame, all half size.

Remains of the models of silk machinery introduced by Sir Thomas Lombe

Textiles Machinery

1732

Square pavement brick from Babylonia (Southern Iraq), 2nd millennium BC.

Building Construction

2000-1001 BCE

Pharmacy vase, Italy, 1740

Medical Ceramic-ware

1740

Trade card: James Mann & James Ayscough

.Unattributed

1747

Jonathan Sisson

.Unattributed

1735

Mummy of a peregrine falcon, Egypt, 2000-1001 BCE

Classical & Medieval Medicine

2000-1001 BCE

Alarm watch movement with French verge escapement

Time Measurement

1749

Powder-Tester (c. 1740), mounted on pistol stock w

Experimental Chemistry

1740

Culpeper microscope with pasteboard body tube and

Microscopy (Wellcome)

1730-1750

Culpeper Compound microscope, with accessories, by Scarlett

Microscopes

1735-1745

Automation mechanism, for ornamental turning 'rose-engine' lathe

Hand and Machine Tools

1740

'The Company of Undertakers' print

William Hogarth

1736

Trade card for James Ayscough, optician, London, England, 1749-1750

.Unattributed

1749-1750

Eugea, Muse de la Geographie

Art

1739

Trade card: Benjamin Cole, Royal Exchange and Ball

Art

1744-1748

Oil painting portrait of George Graham, 1740-1749

Thomas Hudson

1740-1749
Weather compendium combining cistern mercury barometer, alcohol thermometer and thread hygrometer by George Graham, Fleet Street, London, 1739

Weather compendium by George Graham

Meteorology

1739

Microscope (c.1730), by EDMUND CULPEPER. Tripod le

Microscopes

1730

Loeser's Metallic thermometer by J. G. Zimmer, 1746-47

Heat

1746-1747

Straight, cylindrical urethral sound with flat han

Surgery

1751-188

Mahogany clay tobacco pipe case with hinged lid fo

Smoking

1745-1747