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horological rubber

1850-1900

horological file

1833-1880

horological gravers

1870-1900

Carriage key

1875-1890

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

1846

Railway uniform button, East Lancashire Railway

1845-1859

Conversation tube hearing aid

1860-1900

Glass-stoppered bottle containing uranium

1801-1892 (prepared); 1946 (element replaced)

Jones 50-line switchboard, 1879.

1879

Edison telephone peg switchboard and pegs, 1879

1879

Wall telephone using a Blake transmitter, 1880-1890

1880-1890

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

Wall telephone with Blake transmitter, 1880-1900

1880-1900

Crossley telephone receiver, 1880

1880

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

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

William Thomson's marine mirror galvanometer, 1850-1900

1854

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

Dog ornament moulded from gutta percha, 1850-1900

1850-1900

Whitehouse's induction coil, 1858

1858

Receiving ‘jigger’ used by the Marconi Company, 1898

1898

Embossing telegraph receiver 1878-1900

1878-1900

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

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

1820

Gold watch made for Queen Amelie of France by Henri Motel

circa 1840

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