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Sample of Bessemer Steel

1860

Mrs. Sage

1785

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

1705-1737

Theodolite used for the Principal Triangulation of Great Britain

1791

Moon globe by John Russell;England;1797

1797

seal die - Colchester, Stour valley, Sudbury and Halstead Railway

1846

Railway uniform button, East Lancashire Railway

1845-1859

Facsimile 1865 homemade telephone, 1888

1888

Thomson's mirror galvanometer, 1858

1858

Cooke and Wheatstone 5-needle telegraph, 1837

1837

Thomson (Lord Kelvin) double curb transmitter, 1858

1858

'Thunder pump' magneto-electric device, 1856

1856

Insulators used for Morse's telegraph, 1835

1835

Wheatstone ABC telegraph receiver, 1942

1842

Type used for original Morse telegraph, 1835

1835

Letter to The Atlantic Telegraph Company, 1859

1859

William Thomson's marine mirror galvanometer, 1850-1900

1854

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

1839-1840

Polarized 'guillotine' relay, 1862-1866

1862-1866

Magneto-electrometer, 1857

1857

Oersted Compass Needle, 1828

1828

Replica of Morse's second model of telegraphy apparatus, 1934

1934

Whitehouse's induction coil, 1858

1858

Sample of transatlantic cable, 1865-66

1865-1866

Cooke and Wheatstone’s double-needle telegraph, 1838

1838

Silver thimble, used to pass a current through the 1866 Transatlantic cable, 1860-1866

1860-1866

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

Pioneers of Electric Telegraphy at the British Association

1865

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

1850

Vertical galvanometer, 1830-1870

1830-1870

Sample of 1851 Dover-Calais telegraph cable, 1851

1851

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

Gold minute repeating watch by Abraham-Louis Breguet

1784

Gold watch made for Queen Amelie of France by Henri Motel

circa 1840

Quarter-repeating gold watch by Abraham-Louis Breguet

1801-1819

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