Image
Category
Collection
Maker
On Display
Object type
Place
Material
Date

Arkwright's Water Frame, 1775

1775

Snuff Box, England, 1771-1830

1771-1830

Coalbrookdale by Night by Philippe Jacques de Loutherbourg

1801

Vaginal Speculum for Applying Leeches

1801-1830

Cubical polyhedral sundial

1751-1800

Rotative Steam Engine by Boulton and Watt, 1788

1788

Rocket locomotive

1829

Arkwright's Water Frame

1775

Laennec's stethoscope

1815-1825

Model of the "Planet" Locomotive

1830 (original); 1967 (model)

Arkwright's prototype spinning machine, 1769.

1769

Theodolite used for the Principal Triangulation of Great Britain

1791

Watt's end measuring machine

1776

Small orrery by Benjamin Martin

1738-1777

Maudslay 's Lord Chancellor bench micrometer

1805

Refracting telescope with achromatic lens, made by the Dollond family

1760-1775

'Puffing Billy' Locomotive with Tender and Rails

1813-1814

Orrery by Thomas Wright

1735-1745

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

1770

Phrenological head

1821

Original preparation of quinine by Pelletier and Caveton

1820

Anamorphosis Painting of Perspective View of a Ship Model

1744-1774

Cranial trephine

1771-1830

Sans Pareil

1829

Shutt End Colliery Railway steam locomotive 'Agenoria'

1829

Ornate circumcision knife with ivory handle

1775-1785

'Haystack' Boiler, 1775-1799

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

Machine-Screw thread making tool, by Henry Maudslay

circa 1800

Water Pipe, for Smoking Opium or Tobacco, China, 1801-1830

1801-1830

Pendulum clock designed by Galileo in 1642 and made by his son in 1649, model.

1642-1649 (original); 1883 (model)

Isaac Newton’s Reflecting Telescope (replica)

1668; 1924

'Bell-crank' engine, c. 1799

1795-1805 (original)

Model of William Murdock's Oscillating Engine, 1785.

1785

‘Visual glasses’ designed by Benjamin Martin

1756-1800

Silver microscope by George Adams, c. 1761.

1763

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

1808

Pocket microscope by Jeremiah Sisson

1752

Saw used by Samuel Crompton

1750-1770

Freud electronic laughing ball

1990-96

Telescope by Galileo (replica)

1610; 1923

Copy of Thimonnier's chain-stitch sewing machine, 1830

1830

model locomotion no 1

1825

Wax male figure showing the muscles of the body

1776-1780

George III's pendulum

1762

‘Medico-Electrical Machine’ by Nairne and Blunt

1782-1793

Pocket globe in case by Dudley Adams

1799-1802

Atmospheric Engine by John Smeaton, 1772

1772 (original); 1919 (model)

Vacuum Gauge by Boulton and Watt

1794

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

Two Perkins 'tractors'

1795-1805