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Culpeper microscope

Microscopy (Wellcome)

1738

Ornamental turning 'rose-engine' lathe

Hand and Machine Tools

1740

English glass celestial globe, 1739

Astronomy

1739

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

Classical & Medieval Medicine

2050-1750 BCE

Orrery by Thomas Wright

King George III

1735-1745

Triple-cased quarter-repeater watch by Paul du Pin

Clockmakers

1739

Model wagon, horse-drawn quarry truck

Railway Models

1730

Demainbray's compound microscope

Microscopes

1745

Case for William Roy’s standard scale, 1742

Weighing & Measuring

1742

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

Demainbray's convex lens

King George III

1750

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

Hadley's Gregorian reflecting telescope, c.1740

Astronomy

1740-1744

HMS Victory

.Unattributed

1744

Medal commemorating Laura Maria Caterina Bassi, Italy, 1732

Wellcome Medals

1732

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

Gregorian reflecting telescope, 1734-1772

Astronomy

1734-1750

Culpeper microscope with pasteboard body tube and

Microscopy (Wellcome)

1730-1750
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

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

Classical & Medieval Medicine

2000-1001 BCE

Wooden backstaff

Navigation

1730; 1967

Model of British Landscape, c 1750

Environmental Science & Technology

1750

Portrait print from engraving of Edmund Halley, 1730-1739

George Vertue

1730-1739

'The Company of Undertakers' print

William Hogarth

1736

English celestial globe with Sun and Moon arms, 1747

Astronomy

1747

Ornamental turning 'rose-engine' lathe, oak wood base, superstructure, automation mechanism fixed to underside of base, and flywheel fixed to top of superstructure

Hand and Machine Tools

1740

Rose engine lathe

Hand and Machine Tools

c.1740

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

Hand and Machine Tools

1740

The Art of Stocking Frame Work Knitting

Art

1750

Coloured engraving of Prior Park, the seat of Ralph Allen Esq, and the Wagon-Way near Bath

R Wilkinson

1750

Glass bell, with suspension ring

King George III

1750

Wooden handle

Hand and Machine Tools

c.1740

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

Microscopes

1730

Universal microscope

Microscopes

1746

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

Heat

1746-1747
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
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

Hand microscope, in case, English, of mixed 18th c

Microscopy (Wellcome)

1730-1750

Excise officer's slide rule by W. Rix, Verie type

Mathematics

1740-1746

Brass protractor with two blades for setting out a

Mathematics

1740-1749
One of eleven early wine bottles, mallet shaped (shape popular c. 1740)

Early wine bottle, about 1740

Glass Technology

1735-1745

Walking Stick Telescope (c.1750), two lenses, focu

Optics

1750

Case for the first Gregorian reflecting telescope

Astronomy

1740-1744
Model of a tipping cart. Probably from the collection of Stephen Demainbray.

Model of a tipping cart

King George III

c. 1750

Pharmacy vase, Italy, 1740

Medical Ceramic-ware

1740