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scale with metal stand for Thompson mirror speaking galvanometer, 1858

Telecommunications

1858

Thomson mirror speaking galvanometer, 1858

Telecommunications

1858

Portable double-needle telegraph and test set, 1850

Telecommunications

1850

Sample of 1851 Dover-Calais telegraph cable, 1851

Telecommunications

1851

printing block

Textile Industry

c.1840

Specimen of Dover-Calais telegraph cable, 1851

Telecommunications

1851

sample of 1865 transatlantic cable (shore end), 1865

Telecommunications

1865

sample of deep-sea section of first transatlantic cable, 1857-1858

Telecommunications

1857-1858

Huskisson Memorial

Miscellanea & Curiosities

1831

Cloth tape measure

Hand and Machine Tools

1850-1860

Shutt End Colliery Railway steam locomotive 'Agenoria' 0-4-0, 1829

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1829

Bodmin & Wadebridge Railway 3rd Class open railway carriage, 1834

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1834

William Thomson's marine mirror galvanometer, 1850-1900

Telecommunications

1854

Bullion box containing lead shot

Miscellanea & Curiosities

1855

Architect's model of S&J Watts' warehouse

Textile Industry

1850-1856

Portion of the first submarine cable between Dover and Calais, 1850

Telecommunications

1850

Print, 'Interior Tanks', a scene on 'Great Eastern' during the laying of the first Atlantic cable, 1865-1867

Telecommunications

1865-1867

Machine used for covering wires with silk and cotton, 1837

Textiles Machinery

1837

Scale drawing of Nottingham Water Works Engine House, England, 1851-1860

Archive

1850-1859

Print, 'Searching Fault' scene on 'Great Eastern' during the laying of the first Atlantic cable, 1865-1867

Telecommunications

1865-1867

Model of the ‘Optimus’ water closet, England

Domestic Appliances

1870

Henley needle galvanometer, 1855-1860

Telecommunications

1855-1860

Specimen of telegraph cable laid in Birmingham in 1856

Telecommunications

1856

Pioneers of Electric Telegraphy at the British Association

Telecommunications

1865

Silver thimble, used to pass a current through the 1866 Transatlantic cable, 1860-1866

Telecommunications

1860-1866

Writing machine for blind people, United Kingdom, 1862

Printing & Writing

1862

polarized 'guillotine' relay, 1862-1866

Telecommunications

1862-1866

Daniell cell used by Edward Davy, 1836-1839

Telecommunications

1836-1839

Wheatstone ABC telegraph receiver, 1942

Telecommunications

1842

Cooke and Wheatstone 5-needle telegraph, 1837

Telecommunications

1837

section of first telegraph cable, 1837

Telecommunications

1837

Early submarine cables and grapnel, 1858-1866.

Telecommunications

1858-1866

Tobacco box - made from a piece of roman lead pipe

Miscellanea & Curiosities

1854

Royal footwarmer, Great Western Railway

Passenger Comforts

1856

Oil lamp base for Thomson mirror speaking galvanometer, 1858

Telecommunications

1858

Reis telephone transmitter, 1863

Telecommunications

1863

Sewing machine by Elias Howe

Textiles Machinery

c. 1846

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

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1846

single needle block instrument

Signalling & Telecommunications

1845

The Atlantic Telegraph, broadsheet, 1866

Telecommunications

1866

letter written by William Thomson (Lord Kelvin), 1858

Telecommunications

1858-03-02

Thomson's Mirror Galvanometer, 1858

Telecommunications

1858

Cooke and Wheatstone’s double-needle telegraph, 1838

Telecommunications

1838

gutta percha snuff box, 1820-1860

Smoking

1820-1860

Cooke and Wheatstone's ABC telegraph transmitter

Telecommunications

1840

Insulators used for Morse's telegraph, 1835

Telecommunications

1835

Bain's chemical telegraph, 1850.

Telecommunications

1850

'Thunder pump' magneto-electric device, 1856

Telecommunications

1856

Queen Adelaide's Saloon, NO. 2

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1842

Henley's magneto electric double needle telegraph, 1848-1852

Telecommunications

1848-1852