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Album of cyanotypes of British and Foreign Ferns

Photographs

1853

Mirror galvanometer for the transatlantic telegraph, 1858

Electricity and Magnetism

1858

4-wheeled hand crane

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1850

'The British Nave' at the Great Exhibition of 1851

Art

1851

Eclipse

Railway Models

1841

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

Archive

1850-1859

Gold, porcelain, and ivory denture set

Dentistry

1840-1860

Epergne presented to Robert Stephenson

Miscellanea & Curiosities

1839

Micrometer type mechanical comparator

Industrial Metrology

1855

Thomson mirror speaking galvanometer, 1858

Telecommunications

1858

sample of the first transatlantic cable, 1857-1858

Telecommunications

1857-1858

Caricature of an undertaker hoping for cholera, Europe, c. 1854

.Unattributed

c.1854

Specimen of Dover-Calais telegraph cable, 1851

Telecommunications

1851

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

Telecommunications

1850

Wax portrait of Benjamin Lewis Vulliamy (1780 – 1854)

Clockmakers

1851

Wheatstone ABC telegraph receiver, 1942

Telecommunications

1842

Compound monocular microscope

Public Health & Hygiene

1852

Two lancets in a patterned silver case

Therapeutics

1844

Oil lamp base for Thomson mirror speaking galvanometer, 1858

Telecommunications

1858

Tobacco box - made from a piece of roman lead pipe

Miscellanea & Curiosities

1854

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

Telecommunications

1848-1852

Cooke and Wheatstone's ABC telegraph transmitter

Telecommunications

1840

One of the first rechargeable batteries, about 1860

Electricity Supply

1860

model manchester & leeds railway carriage

Railway Models

1839

Sample of submarine cable laid between Dover and Calais, 1850

Telecommunications

1850

Arthington Tunnel memorial plaque, 1849

Railway Infrastructure

1849

The Great Exhibition Polka 1851

Art

1851

Lens for narrowing light beam for Thomson mirror speaking galvanometer, 1858

Telecommunications

1858

Single needle telegraph, 1846

Telecommunications

1846

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

Telecommunications

1857-1858

Cooke and Wheatstone's A.B.C. Telegraph Receiver, 1839-1840

Telecommunications

1839-1840

Bright's bell telegraph, 1855

Telecommunications

1855

Half-plate camera

Photographic Technology

c.1860

windsor mantle clock

Railway Timepieces

1845-1855

Cooke and Wheatstone double needle telegraph, 1844

Telecommunications

1844

Signal lamp, Stockton & Darlington Railway

Signalling & Telecommunications

1840

Shoulder papier-mache doll accompanying English wo

Materials Science Gallery

c. 1840

Lucien Sharpe sheet metal gauge

Industrial Metrology

c. 1850

Dandy cart and horse

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1845-1855

Grand Junction Railway locomotive 'Columbine'

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1845

Steam locomotive, entitled Cornwall

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1847

Model of Grand Junction Railway locomotive "Wildfire", 1839

Railway Models

1839

Plato

James Hall Nasmyth

1844

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

Telecommunications

1857-1858

scale with metal stand for Thompson mirror speaking galvanometer, 1858

Telecommunications

1858

Isambard Kingdom Brunel, English civil engineer, mid-19th century.

Railways

1860

Specimen of telegraph cable laid in Birmingham in 1856

Telecommunications

1856

Portable double-needle telegraph and test set, 1850

Telecommunications

1850

letter written by William Thomson (Lord Kelvin), 1858

Telecommunications

1858-03-02

Single-needle block instrument

Signalling & Telecommunications

1845