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Coalbrookdale by Night

Philippe-Jacques de Loutherbourg

1801

Maudslay 's Lord Chancellor bench micrometer

Industrial Metrology

1805

Theodolite used for the Principal Triangulation of Great Britain

Surveying

1791

Machine-Screw thread making tool, by Henry Maudslay

Hand and Machine Tools

c.1800

Old Spitalfields hand loom with jacquard mechanism

Textiles Machinery

1810

'Haystack' Boiler, 1775-1799

Motive Power

1775-1799 (original); 1900-1907 (model)

Moon globe by John Russell;England;1797

Astronomy

1797

Stanhope square demonstrator, c.1805.

Mathematics

c.1805

Trevithick's model road locomotive engine

Road Transport

1796-1802

'Bell-crank' engine, c. 1799

Motive Power

1795-1805 (original)

Spring detent watch by John Arnold, used by Ruth Bellville and family to distribute GMT c.1834-1940

Clockmakers

1794

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

Motive Power

1797-1804

Five wooden molecular model balls

Scientific Instruments & Research

c. 1810

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

Hannah Humphrey

1802

Marine chronometer by John Arnold and Son

Clockmakers

1795

Boring machine, Yard No. 642

Hand and Machine Tools

1804-1807

Bracelet watch by Broillal, Switzerland

Clockmakers

1795-1805

Model of Brunel's cotton winding machine.

Textiles Machinery

1800-1802

Silver pill box, Birmingham, England, 1797

Wellcome (general)

1797

Six Bramah lock drilling templates, on pine (wood) board

Hand and Machine Tools

c.1795

Lever escapement watch by Josiah Emery

Clockmakers

1792

Portrait bust of James Watt

James Watt's Garret Workshop

1807

Oval snuff box, England, 1807

Smoking

1807

Lever escapement watch by John Grant

Clockmakers

1795

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

Hand and Machine Tools

c. 1808

Herschel, William, head and shoulders

James Watt's Garret Workshop

1808

Two Perkins 'tractors'

Therapeutics

1795-1805

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

Hand and Machine Tools

c. 1800

Surveyor's pocket sextant.

Surveying

1795-1805

The Rev Dr Priestley's House and Elaboratory

William Ellis

1792

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

Railway Models

1808

Chemical Lectures

Thomas Rowlandson

c.1810
Original screw-cutting lathe, made by Henry Maudslay, end of 18th century

Henry Maudslay's original screw-cutting lathe, c.1800

Hand and Machine Tools

c. 1800

Half-penny coin

Textile Industry

1806

Silver vinaigrette with hinged lid

Pharmacy-ware

1809

Vacuum Gauge by Boulton and Watt

Motive Power

1794

Half-penny coin

Textile Industry

1799

Reproduction in wood, Dr Joseph Black

James Watt's Garret Workshop

1809

Reproduction in wood. No 127

James Watt's Garret Workshop

1808

Wood model of lion's head

James Watt's Garret Workshop

1809

Two portrait busts of James Watt

James Watt's Garret Workshop

1807

Spring-detent escapement watch with gold case by John Arnold and Son

Clockmakers

1796

Ready reckoner for ship's cargoes

Mathematics

1807

Half-penny coin

Textile Industry

1806

Half-penny coin

Textile Industry

1799

Plaster cast of Matthew Boulton

James Watt's Garret Workshop

1809

Souscription watch, by Abraham-Louis Breguet

Clockmakers

1805

Pocket globe in case by Dudley Adams

Astronomy

1799-1802

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

Wellcome (general)

1801

Deck-watch used by Capt. George Vancouver on board HMS Discovery 1791-5

Clockmakers

1791