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Portrait mezzotint print from engraving of Phelps Thomas and Bartlett John, 1778

1778

Silver medal, commemorates the International Health Exhibition

1884

King George III's central forces machine

1762

Circular electric hot plate for domestic cooking

1892-1900

Half-penny coin

1806

Verge watch in silver inner case

Small white cup in soft paste porcelain

1748-1763

Marine thermometer by Negretti and Zambra

1890

Section of lightning conductor from St Paul’s cathedral

1769

Small orrery by Benjamin Martin

1738-1777

The Improved Pedometer or Waywiser

1765-1806

Copy of the citation given to Hayley Jordan

2016

Device for recording warder patrols in a Lunatic Asylum

1877-1897

Ready reckoner for ship's cargoes

1807

Demainbray's cometarium

1750-1760

Lancet owned by Edward Jenner

1720-1800

'Pock-marked faces: A curious illusion', anti-vaccination leaflet

1880-1890

Steljes ABC type printing telegraph receiver No. 477

1895-1910

Trough battery, 1801-1838

1801-1838

'Radio Times' volume 119 (Coronation Edition)

May 1953

Pair of dental forceps

1820-1855

Canvas restraint jacket for children

1930-1960

Stipple-engraved portrait of Benjamin Martin

1815

Cable grappling illustration, 1874-1924

1874-1924

Glass bottle of penicillin powder

1943

Three tubes of 'F-tablets' (Novocaine) for dental local anaesthetic

1925-1940

Non-working model of a proposed domestic robot, 1970 - 1980

1970-1980

Compendium rule signed Humfrey Cole

1574

Compendium by Elias Allen

1630-1653

Home built 405-line television receiver, 1951-1953

1951-1953

Square signed "J.Ramsden, 1757"

1757

100 Link Steel Surveying Chain, 1784.

1784

Satirical print of a failed balloon launch from Foley House, London in 1784

1784

Lunardi's second balloon ascending from St. George's Fields, 1785

1785-1790

Open scale barograph by Short & Mason Ltd.

1944

George III's tidal demonstration model

1762

Pocket microscope by Jeremiah Sisson

1752

King George III's friction machine

1762

Gunter quadrant by Walter Hayes

1648-1687

Thomas Tuttell

1695-1702

Earthenware Phrenological Bust

1860-1896

3D printed model of child's abdomen

2015

Four scalpels and a hernia bistoury in case

1901-1930

Stroh's type-printer for Wheatstone ABC communicator, 1870-1881

1870-1881

Pill tile, England, 1617-1700

1617-1700

Silver sundial by Hunfrey Cole

1568-1590

Single needle telegraph, 1846

1846

Pocket globe in case by Dudley Adams

1799-1802

Clarke's Hydrometer (c. 1755)

1755

Glassware from Carrel's apparatus for sterilizing wounds

1914-1918