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Enfield Carbine Rifle

circa 1860

Boring machine, Yard No. 642

1804-1807

Sample of Bessemer Steel

1860

Mrs. Sage

1785

Achromatic doublet lens with a focal length of 52 inches

1780

Pair-cased pocket watch in pinchbeck and leather outer casing with verge escapement

1705-1737

Moon globe by John Russell;England;1797

1797

Thomson (Lord Kelvin) double curb transmitter, 1858

1858

'Thunder pump' magneto-electric device, 1856

1856

Wheatstone ABC telegraph receiver, 1942

1842

Portable double-needle telegraph and test set, 1850

1850

Letter to The Atlantic Telegraph Company, 1859

1859

Cooke and Wheatstone's A.B.C. telegraph receiver, 1839-1840

1839-1840

Magneto-electrometer, 1857

1857

Oersted Compass Needle, 1828

1828

Cooke and Wheatstone’s double-needle telegraph, 1838

1838

Five-needle train signalling instrument used on the London and Blackwall Railway

1840

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

1835-1840

Chart of the Atlantic showing proposed course of the Atlantic Cable, 1856-1857

1856-1857

Printing telegraph receiver, 1845-1851

1845-1851

Copy of the Receiver and Alarm Call of Schilling's Electric Telegraph, 1870-1877

1870-1877

Transmitting keys for Five-needle telegraph, 1837-1846

1837-1846

Cooke and Wheatstone's ABC telegraph transmitter

1840

Section of first telegraph cable, 1837

1837

Repeating watch movement by Vulliamy

1800

Watch with spring detent escapement by John Arnold and Son

1788

Half-quarter repeating gold watch by Mudge and Dutton

1791

Terrestrial globe by John and William Cary, London

1790-1794

Gold watch with the owner's name in place of hour numbers, by William Hardy

1820

Deck-watch used by Capt. William Parry during his attempt to reach the North Pole, 1827

1823

Gold watch with spring detent escapement by Ellicott and Taylor

1815

Gold and enamel half-quarter repeater watch by Brockbanks

1812

Marine chronometer by Charles Shepherd

1840-1850

Mail guard watch by George Littlewort

1825

Watch with chaff-cutter escapement by John Grant

1804

Gold lever escapement watch by John Leroux

1785

Larmuth Loom

circa 1860

Portrait oil painting of John Arnold and family 1783-1787

1783-1787

Watch and compass by Benjamin Webb

1799

Parts from a constant-force escapement by Thomas Mudge

1785

Marine chronometer by John Arnold and Son

1795

Marine chronometer movement by Brockbanks

1787

Watch movement by John Grant

1800

Watch made for the 1851 Great Exhibition by Alexander Watkins

1851

Clock-watch by Daniel De St Leu

1797

'Dutch forgery' watch signed John Wilter

1780

Dental impression tray

1830-1850

Pearwood snuff box stamped with skulls

1796-1815

Two lancets in a patterned silver case

1844

Lancets in silver case

1826