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Coalbrookdale by Night

Philippe-Jacques de Loutherbourg

1801

Rotative steam engine by Boulton and Watt, 1788.

Motive Power

1788

'Puffing Billy' locomotive

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1813-1814

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

Anatomy & Pathology

1818

Mrs. Sage

.Unattributed

1785

Theodolite used for the Principal Triangulation of Great Britain

Surveying

1791

Trevithick's model road locomotive engine

Road Transport

1796-1802

Moon globe by John Russell;England;1797

Astronomy

1797

Reflecting telescope by William Herschel

Astronomy

1783-1785

Musical transposition calculator, in circular slide-rule format

Mathematics

1820

Maudslay 's Lord Chancellor bench micrometer

Industrial Metrology

1805

'Bell-crank' engine, c. 1799

Motive Power

1795-1805 (original)

Old Spitalfields hand loom with jacquard mechanism

Textiles Machinery

1810

Pocket globe in case by Dudley Adams

Astronomy

1799-1802

Model of William Murdock's Oscillating Engine, 1785.

Motive Power

1785

Conjectural model of Trevithick's locomotive 'Catch-me-who-can'

Railway Models

1808

Original preparation of quinine

Materia Medica & Pharmacology

1820

Scientific Researches! - New Discoveries in Pneumaticks! - or, an Experimental Lecture on the Powers of Air

Hannah Humphrey

1802

Part of electrostatic telegraph, 1816

Telecommunications

1816

Two Perkins 'tractors'

Therapeutics

1795-1805

Castlereagh cabinet for weights

Weighing & Measuring

1815-1818

Model of Rotative Beam Engine by William Tongue, c. 1804

Motive Power

1797-1804

Copy of Chamberlen obstetric forceps

Obstetrics, Gynaecology & Contraception

1813

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

Orthopaedics

1795-1820

Marine chronometer by John Arnold and Son, 1787-1799

Time Measurement

1787-1799

Lunardi's second balloon ascending from St. George's Fields, 1785

Julius Caesar Ibbetson

1785-1790

Ivory Scales

James Watt's Garret Workshop

1790-1819

Model, of Woolf's Water Tube Boiler, 1819

Motive Power

1819

Stanhope square demonstrator, c.1805.

Mathematics

c.1805

Filar micrometer by William Herschel, 1780-1800

Astronomy

1780-1800

Papier mache snuff box featuring semi-nude woman

Smoking

1790-1820

Stipple-engraved portrait of Margaret Bryan and two children

William Nutter

1797

Tin can used for the early preservation of food

Hand and Machine Tools

1812

Electrical chimes by George Adams

King George III

1781-1790

Marine chronometer by John Arnold and Son

Clockmakers

1795

Pivoted-detent escapement watch by Larcum Kendall 1786-7

Clockmakers

1786

Silver pill box engraved with a triangular pattern, Birmingham, England, 1801

Wellcome (general)

1801

Small screw-cutting device or fusee engine for clock-maker's use

Hand and Machine Tools

c. 1800

Ebony and brass octant.

Navigation

1805-1815

Lord Byron’s orthopaedic boot, England, 1781-1810

Orthopaedics

1781-1810

Hedley's experimental model for testing adhesion.

Railway Models

1812

'Dr Syntax and his wife making an experiment in pneumatics', print, London, England, 1820

Thomas Rowlandson

1820

Rutherford maximum and minimum thermometer, 1794

Meteorology

1794

Stipple-engraved portrait of Benjamin Martin

R Page

1815

Satirical print of a failed balloon launch from Foley House, London in 1784

Paul Sandby

1784

Two Guillotine blades

Wellcome (general)

1790-1794

Medal awarded by the Royal Humane Society, England, 1781

Wellcome Medals

1781

Davy Safety lamp

Mining & Ore Dressing

before 1815

model, scale 1:8, of press for cutting out blanks

Hand and Machine Tools

c. 1808

Oval snuff box, England, 1807

Smoking

1807