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Coalbrookdale by Night by Philippe Jacques de Loutherbourg

1801

Rotative Steam Engine by Boulton and Watt, 1788

1788

Laennec's stethoscope

1815-1825

Model, of Woolf's Water Tube Boiler, 1819

1819

Transverse folding spectacles

1796-1798

Model of William Murdock's Oscillating Engine, 1785.

1785

Maudslay 's Lord Chancellor bench micrometer

1805

Phrenological head

1821

Half-penny coin

1806

Remains of Little Eaton Gangway coal wagon, c 1798

1793-1803

Seal die, Ashby De La Zouch Canal Company

1794

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

1820

Joseph Priestley LLD FRS

1782

Praeclarissimus Isaacus Newton Eques

1787

Chronometer watch in silver case by John Arnold and Son

hallmarked 1788

'Bell-crank' engine, c. 1799

1795-1805 (original)

model steam locomotive

1826

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

1808

Half-penny coin

1799

Weights and measures

1805

Dudley Adams

1796-1826

Straight spectacles

1796-1797

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

1797-1804

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

circa 1800

Hydrostatic balance by Jesse Ramsden, London, 1785-1789

1785-1789

Filar micrometer by William Herschel, 1780-1800

1780-1800

Marble reproduction of bust

1790-1819

Plaster urn

1790-1819

Cuff-type compound microscope

1790-1810

Two Perkins 'tractors'

1795-1805

Oval snuff box, England, 1807

1807

Small crucible, large broken piece missing

1790-1819

Crucible, broken, with three fragments present

1790-1819

One plaster mould

1790-1819

9" Dovetail saw with open mahogany handle, brass back and steel blade

1790-1819

Plaster five-part arm mould

1790-1819

Crucible, piece missing, fused substance within

1790-1819

Part of four-part plaster split mould, rear of head and neck of James Watt, by James Watt

1790-1819

Four-part plaster leg

1790-1819

Plaster mould

1790-1819

Part of four-part plaster split mould

1790-1819

East Indiaman Herefordshire

1815

Letter opener with calendar and map, 1893-1894

1893-4

Sample of gutta percha insulated cable, 1863-7

1863-7

Gold watch by John Gibson, Royal Exchange

1808

Watch with enamel case made for the Turkish market

1805-1815

Lever escapement watch by John Grant

1795

Silver watch with unusual Robin escapement

1792

Gold and enamel watch by Andrews

1785-1795

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE