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Portable double-needle telegraph and test set, 1850

Telecommunications

1850

Sample of 1851 Dover-Calais telegraph cable, 1851

Telecommunications

1851

Dental impression tray

Dentistry

1830-1850

printing block

Textile Industry

c.1840

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

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1834

Schwann's microscope

Microscopes

1835

Machine used for covering wires with silk and cotton, 1837

Textiles Machinery

1837

Specimen of Dover-Calais telegraph cable, 1851

Telecommunications

1851

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

Telecommunications

1850

Two lancets in a patterned silver case

Therapeutics

1844

Huskisson Memorial

Miscellanea & Curiosities

1831

Daniell cell used by Edward Davy, 1836-1839

Telecommunications

1836-1839

section of first telegraph cable, 1837

Telecommunications

1837

Cooke and Wheatstone 5-needle telegraph, 1837

Telecommunications

1837

Wheatstone ABC telegraph receiver, 1942

Telecommunications

1842

Silver snuff boxes, United Kingdom, presented in 1832 and 1850

Smoking

1832

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

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1846

Single-needle block instrument

Signalling & Telecommunications

1845

Sewing machine by Elias Howe

Textiles Machinery

c. 1846

Queen Adelaide's Saloon, NO. 2

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1842

Cooke and Wheatstone’s double-needle telegraph, 1838

Telecommunications

1838

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

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

Telecommunications

1848-1852

pot for Daniell cell used by Edward Davy, 1836-1839

Telecommunications

1836-1839

Lead weight marked 'Reid' from the first cross-Channel telegraph cable, 1850.

Telecommunications

1850

Grand Junction Railway locomotive 'Columbine'

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1845

Whitworth Planing Machine

Hand and Machine Tools

c.1842

Sample of submarine cable laid between Dover and Calais, 1850

Telecommunications

1850

Palmer's micrometer (replica)

Industrial Metrology

c. 1848

Replica of Daguerre-Giroux camera

Photographic Technology

1839 (original); c. 1988 (replica)

Prototype of the Brougham carriage

Road Transport

1838

Britannia statue

Fixtures & Fittings from Railway Buildings

1849

Compound microscope used by Joseph Jackson Lister

Microscopy (Wellcome)

1830-1850

Epergne presented to Robert Stephenson

Miscellanea & Curiosities

1839

Cooke and Wheatstone five-needle telegraph

Telecommunications

1837

Early inhaler for ether anaesthesia

Anaesthesiology

1847-1848

Sir W. F. Cooke's original electric alarum, 1835-1840

Telecommunications

1835-1840

Arthington Tunnel memorial plaque, 1849

Railway Infrastructure

1849

Printing telegraph receiver, 1845-1851

Telecommunications

1845-1851

Single needle telegraph, 1846

Telecommunications

1846

Octant made of ebony and brass

Navigation

1830-1835

Type used for original morse telegraph, 1835

Telecommunications

1835

Marble statue of George Stephenson, 1852

Fixtures & Fittings from Railway Buildings

1852

Section of early underground telegraph cable, 1846

Telecommunications

1846

Plaster model of the lunar surface

Astronomy

1844

Voigtlander daguerreotype camera

Photographic Technology

1841

Keyboard for transmitting telegraphic messages, 1845-1851

Telecommunications

1845-1851

Cheffins's Map of the Railways in England and Scotland

Railway Maps & Plans

1845