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Model of Jenning's patent water closet, England, 1895-1905

Public Health & Hygiene

1895-1905

Small orrery by Benjamin Martin

Astronomy

1738-1777

George III's cycloidal pendulum

King George III

1762

George III's compound engine

King George III

1762

Pharmacist's label cabinet, London, England, 1850-1930

Pharmacy-ware

1850-1930

Mahogany pulley orrery

Astronomy

1750-1775

Stanhope square demonstrator, c.1805.

Mathematics

c.1805

George III's double-barrelled air pump

King George III

1761

King George III's central forces machine

King George III

1762

George III's philosophical table

King George III

1761-1762

King George III's archimedean screw

King George III

1762

Dial micrometer, 1760-1772.

King George III

1760-1772

Sheraton medicine chest, Europe, 1720-1800

Materia Medica & Pharmacology

1720-1800

Gunter quadrant

Astronomy

1650-1725

Model to demonstrate the path of a projectile

King George III

1740-1753

Beam compass by George Adams

King George III

1775-1795

Robert Hooke type microscope

Microscopes

1671-1700

Reflecting telescope by William Herschel, 1783-1785

Astronomy

1783-1785

George III's inclined plane and Horse-way

King George III

1762

Electrical chimes by George Adams

King George III

1781-1790

Calculator for treadwheel labour, 1823

King George III

1823

Demainbray's model of a camera obscura

King George III

1752

George III's apparatus for oblique and compound collision

King George III

1762

George III's model crriage body

King George III

1762

Child’s rocking chair commode, Europe, 1751-1850

Public Health & Hygiene

1751-1850

George III's tidal demonstration model

King George III

1762

Demainbray's optical model

King George III

1752

King George III's friction machine

King George III

1762

Footstool/spittoon, South Eastern & Chatham Railway

Railway Furniture

Wheatstone printing telegraph, 1841

Telecommunications

1841

Guard's chronometer, Birmingham & Derby Junction Railway

Railway Timepieces

1834-1844

Smeaton's Apparatus for Determining the Efficiency of Water Wheels

Motive Power

1988 (model); 1752 (original)

Freezing microtome, London, England, 1883-1885

Microbiology

1883-1885

Double-frame brass sextant.

Astronomy

1810-1826

Case for weight perception set

Psychology, Psychiatry & Anthropometry

1893

Weighing and measuring machine by John Joseph Merlin, London, 1760-1803

Nursing & Hospital Furnishings

1760-1803

Homeopathic medicine chest, London, England, 1880-1920

Materia Medica & Pharmacology

1880-1920

Mahogany case with two microscope objectives, Jena, Germany, 1875-1900

Microscopy (Wellcome)

1875-1900

Mathematical models, early 18th century.

Mathematics

1713-1750

Rocking microtome, Cambridge, England, 1885

Microscopes

1885
Model of a tipping cart.

Tipping cart, c. 1750.

King George III

1748-1753

Photographic print of Herschel's Forty-Foot Telescope, 1890

Astronomy

1890

Pocket aneroid barograph

Meteorology

1919

Kymograph, France, 1865-1875

Clinical Diagnosis

1860-1880
Compound microscope of the Culpeper type made by either Matthew Loft or Edward Scarlett in London in 1745. It once belonnged to Stephen Demainbray and is inscribed ' 'DOCTr DEMAINBRAY'.on the body tube. It is accompanied by accessories which include specimen slides spares materials to refresh the slides,, a box for live specimens, glass tubes for specimens, three interchangeable objective lenses, forceps, a glass slide, contrast discs, a mount for a hand magnifier and a brush.

Demainbray's compound microscope

Microscopes

1745

Pilot balloon slide rule, 1927

Meteorology

1927

Refracting telescope on portable stand, 1800-1825

Astronomy

1800-1825

Surgical instrument set, London, England, 1810-1812

Surgery

1810-1812

Elaborate set of geometrical wooden models for dem

Mathematics

1850-1899

Lithotomy set

Surgery

1820-1860