London & North Western Railway 'Hardwicke'
1873
Tables of lifetimes, annuities, and premiums
1864
Marine barometer by R.B. Bate
mid-1800s
Cupriferous sandstone from Schweinkopf
before 1889
Clockwork drive, for refracting telescope of 5.9-inch aperture
1829
Refracting telescope of 5.9-inch aperture, mounted on English type equatorial mounting with off-set lead counterweight
1829
Set of 8 brass nested cup weights for the Mark of Alicante from the Castlereagh Collection for Alicante
1800-1818
Set of 7 square brass grain weights and two folded pieces of paper: one of which is inscribed with ‘Alicante’, for the Mark of Alicante from the Castlereagh Collection
1800-1818
Sycamore (wood) case with lid, for the Mark of Alicante from the Castlereagh Collection
1800-1818
horological file
1833-1880
Pair-cased pocket watch in pinchbeck and leather outer casing with verge escapement
1705-1737
Moon globe by John Russell;England;1797
1797
Carriage key
1875-1890
Jones 50-line switchboard, 1879.
1879
Edison telephone peg switchboard and pegs, 1879
1879
Wall telephone using a Blake transmitter, 1880-1890
1880-1890
One of Fleming's first thermionic diode valves, 1889
1889
Pair of Bell telephones, 1878
1878
Zither switch with open-wire multiple and two-motion ratchet drive, 1894
1894
Strowger step-by-step automatic telephone exchange switch, 1897-1898
1897-1898
Facsimile 1865 homemade telephone, 1888
1888
Crossley telephone receiver, 1880
1880
Cooke and Wheatstone 5-needle telegraph, 1837
1837
Thomson (Lord Kelvin) double curb transmitter, 1858
1858
'Thunder pump' magneto-electric device, 1856
1856
Portable double-needle telegraph and test set, 1850
1850
Type used for original Morse telegraph, 1835
1835
Letter to The Atlantic Telegraph Company, 1859
1859
Filings coherer, glass tube formed into bulbs at each end at right angles, 1899
1899
Cooke and Wheatstone's A.B.C. telegraph receiver, 1839-1840
1839-1840
Filings coherer, glass tube, 1898
1898
Oersted Compass Needle, 1828
1828
Whitehouse's induction coil, 1858
1858
Receiving ‘jigger’ used by the Marconi Company, 1898
1898
Flat steel-spring (or watch-spring) coherer, 1894
1894
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
Filings coherer, glass tube bent at 45-degree angle at one end to form side-pocket, 1898
1898
Iron borings coherer (Branly type), 1894
1894
Portrait bust of Lord Kelvin, 1896
1896
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