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Category
Collection
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Object type
Place
Material
Date

Thumbscrew, France, 1601-1850

1601-1850

Coalbrookdale by Night by Philippe Jacques de Loutherbourg

1801

Arkwright's Water Frame, 1775

1775

Cubical polyhedral sundial

1751-1800

Vaginal Speculum for Applying Leeches

1801-1830

Cat-o-nine Tails, United Kingdom, 1700-1850

1700-1850

Marine Timekeeper known as 'H5' by John Harrison and Son 1770

1770

Snuff Box, England, 1771-1830

1771-1830

Difference Engine No. 1

circa 1832

Small orrery by Benjamin Martin

1738-1777

Trough battery, 1801-1838

1801-1838

Dental Pelican for Tooth Pulling

1701-1800

Laennec's stethoscope

1815-1825

Original preparation of quinine by Pelletier and Caveton

1820

Cloth tape measure

1850-1860

Refracting telescope with achromatic lens, made by the Dollond family

1760-1775

Gold lever escapement watch by John Leroux

1785

Pharmacy jar for powdered quinine

1601-1700

Phrenological head

1821

Skaife's Pistolgraph Camera

1858

Prototype of the Brougham carriage

1838

Napier's Bones

1690

Sewing machine by Elias Howe

circa 1846

Arkwright's prototype spinning machine, 1769.

1769

Early inhaler for ether anaesthesia

1847-1848

Rotative Steam Engine by Boulton and Watt, 1788

1788

Model, of Woolf's Water Tube Boiler, 1819

1819

The Great Exhibition Polka 1851

1851

Bronze mortar and pestle, Europe, 1701-1800

1701-1800

Meerschaum tobacco pipe

1790-1840

James Watt and the Steam Engine Print

1860

Edward Jenner's lancets

1801-1823

One of the First Rechargeable Batteries, about 1860

1860

Two Perkins 'tractors'

1795-1805

Telescope by Christopher Cock

1673

Watch movement with spring detent escapement by John Arnold and Son

1787

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

1796

30 hour longcase clock by Thomas Tompion

1672

Schwann's microscope (no case)

1835

Shaving by Steam

1800-1830

Pharmacy leech jar

1760-1820

Model paddle wheel engines of the SS 'Great Eastern'

1853-1857

Huskisson Memorial

1831

Furness Railway steam locomotive 'Coppernob' 0-4-0, No 3, 1846

1846

Month-going longcase clock by John May

1700-1710

Sundial by Elias Allen

1625-1635

Marine chronometer by John Arnold

1771

Amputation saw, Europe, 1501-1600

1501-1600

Painted mask of Deva Sanniya

1771-1860

Maudslay 's Lord Chancellor bench micrometer

1805