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Signal Block Bell, South Eastern Railway

1862

North Eastern Railway, locomotive 910

1875

Model railway turntable

1850

Colour lithograph of the S.S. 'Great Eastern'

1850-1859

Ramsbottom speed indicator

1860

Bridge plaque - 1855

1855

Brass worksplate no 517, Manning Wardle & Co

1875

Railway bridge section

1850

London & North Western Railway steam locomotive 'Pet' 0-4-0ST

1865

John Ellis

1858

Clark's block signalling telegraph instrument, 1854

1854

Stirling single locomotive wheel casting pattern, Great Northern Railway

1870

Model of Grew's locomotive for ice

circa 1861

One of four original Swan and Raven models

1867

One of four original Swan and Raven models used by Froude

1867

Longcase clock, Stephenson & Co's Locomotive Works

1857

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

1857-1858

Mirror galvanometer for the transatlantic telegraph, 1858

1858

Atlantic cable specimen, 1865

1865

Sample of the first transatlantic cable, 1857-1858

1857-1858

Lord Kelvin's 'ironclad' marine galvanometer, 1865-1866

1865-1866

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

1857-1858

Sample of submarine telegraph cable, 1866

1866

Cast iron plaque from Queenstown Road Bridge, Battersea, London, 1865

1865

model sykes lock and block signalling system

1875

Thomson's mirror marine galvanometer, 1858

1858

London & South Western Railway Shark 2-4-0

circa 1868

Great Western Railway model of 'Iron Duke', 1851

1851

Novelty model

1955; 1830

Catgut suture

1875

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

Letter opener with calendar and map, 1893-1894

1893-4

Glass pharmacy storage bottle

1864

Writing frame for the blind, Stockholm, Sweden, 1871

1871

Remington 44 Revolver

1863-1865

Aveling and Porter steam traction engine

circa 1871

Two copper and zinc chains, France, 1855-1870

1855-1870

Self-flushing gutter pipe, England, 1850-1875

1850-1875

Lid for Self Cleansing carbon filter

circa 1861

Purse presented to George Hall esq

1853

Tobacco box - made from a piece of roman lead pipe

1854

One of the First Rechargeable Batteries, about 1860

1860

Henley needle galvanometer, 1855-1860

1855-1860

Bright's bell telegraph, 1855

1855

Specimen of telegraph cable laid in Birmingham in 1856

1856

Magnetic key, 1850-1870

1850-1870

Morse key, 1850-1870.

1850-1870

Replica of the first Morse telegraph, 1835

1934

Bain's chemical telegraph, 1850.

1850

Columnar Engine, 1862

1862