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scale with metal stand for Thompson mirror speaking galvanometer, 1858

Telecommunications

1858

Thomson mirror speaking galvanometer, 1858

Telecommunications

1858

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

Telecommunications

1865-1867

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

Telecommunications

1865-1867

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

Telecommunications

1857-1858

Model of human eye

Anatomy & Pathology

1870

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

Silk skirt and blouse dyed with Perkin's Mauve Aniline Dye

Industrial Chemistry

1862-1863

Model of the ‘Optimus’ water closet, England

Domestic Appliances

1870

Carbolic steam spray used by Joseph Lister

Surgery

1866-1870

polarized 'guillotine' relay, 1862-1866

Telecommunications

1862-1866

Early submarine cables and grapnel, 1858-1866.

Telecommunications

1858-1866

Oil lamp base for Thomson mirror speaking galvanometer, 1858

Telecommunications

1858

letter written by William Thomson (Lord Kelvin), 1858

Telecommunications

1858-03-02

Thomson's Mirror Galvanometer, 1858

Telecommunications

1858

Reis telephone transmitter, 1863

Telecommunications

1863

Glass pharmacy storage bottle

Medical Glass-ware

1864

Babbage's Analytical Engine, 1834-1871. (Trial model)

Computing & Data Processing

1871

Trial model and spare wheels for Charles Babbage's Analytical Engine

Computing & Data Processing

c. 1870

The Atlantic Telegraph, broadsheet, 1866

Telecommunications

1866

Electric motor used by James J

Scientific Instruments & Research

1860

North Eastern Railway locomotive Aerolite

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1869

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

Telecommunications

1865-1867

Print, 'Launching Buoy' scene on "Great Eastern" during the laying of the first Atlantic cable, 1865-1867

Telecommunications

1865-1867

Model of a Power loom for plain weaving

Textiles Machinery

1857

Thomson's Mirror Marine Galvanometer, 1858

Electricity and Magnetism

1858

Lamp cover for Thompson mirror speaking galvanometer, 1858

Telecommunications

1858

Photoglyphic engraving of fern 'Adiantum capillus-veneris'

Photographs

c1858

Louis Pasteur’s compound microscope

Microscopy (Wellcome)

1857-1865

Whitehouse's induction coil, 1858

Telecommunications

1858

Hughes' printing telegraph, 1860.

Telecommunications

1860

Sample of Bessemer steel

Metallurgy

1860

Cable 'tree' decorative souvenir of the Transatlantic Cable, 1858

Telecommunications

1858-1860

Operation punch cards for Charles Babbage's Analytical Engine, nos. 22-29

Computing & Data Processing

C. 1870

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

Telecommunications

1858

Sample of transatlantic cable, 1865-66

Telecommunications

1865-1866

Weaving power loom shuttle

Textiles Machinery

1858-1862

Croll Testimonial silver gilt fountain, Parcel-gilt Victorian silver rosewater fountain designed as a table centrepiece

Temporary Exhibitions

1870

Reis telephone receiver, 1863

Telecommunications

1863

Improved Patent Magneto Electric Machine for nervous diseases

Therapeutics

1862

Wheatstone receiver (Morse inker), 1867

Telecommunications

1867

Sample of gutta percha insulated cable, 1863-7

Telecommunications

1863-7

Wheatstone's portable ABC telegraph, 1858

Telecommunications

1858

magneto-electrometer, 1857

Telecommunications

1857

Variable punch cards for Charles Babbage's Analytical Engine, nos. 1-118

Computing & Data Processing

C. 1870

Great Northern Railway locomotive Stirling Single

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1870

Writing frame for the blind, Stockholm, Sweden, 1871

Printing & Writing

1871

Mirror galvanometer for the transatlantic telegraph, 1858

Electricity and Magnetism

1858