Wheatstone ABC telegraph receiver, 1942
1842
Portable double-needle telegraph and test set, 1850
1850
Type used for original Morse telegraph, 1835
1835
Filings coherer, glass tube formed into bulbs at each end at right angles, 1899
1899
Cell used in interruptor circuit, 1875-1890
1875-1890
Cooke and Wheatstone's A.B.C. telegraph receiver, 1839-1840
1839-1840
Polarized 'guillotine' relay, 1862-1866
1862-1866
Clockwork interruptor, once owned by David Hughes, 1875-1880
1875-1880
Filings coherer, glass tube, 1898
1898
Copper earthing tube believed to have been used by Marconi, 1890-1897
1890-1897
Magneto-electrometer, 1857
1857
Whitehouse's induction coil, 1858
1858
Cooke and Wheatstone’s double-needle telegraph, 1838
1838
Flat steel-spring (or watch-spring) coherer, 1894
1894
Iron borings coherer (Branly type), 1894
1894
Five-needle train signalling instrument used on the London and Blackwall Railway
1840
Silver thimble, used to pass a current through the 1866 Transatlantic cable, 1860-1866
1860-1866
Pioneers of Electric Telegraphy at the British Association
1865
Vertical galvanometer, 1830-1870
1830-1870
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
Clock dial marked 'Potter, Railway Time', 1840-1880
1840-1880
Transmitting keys for Five-needle telegraph, 1837-1846
1837-1846
Cooke and Wheatstone's ABC telegraph transmitter
1840
Spark gap or knob coherer, 1889
1889
Section of first telegraph cable, 1837
1837
Holmes' arc lamp from South Foreland Lighthouse, about 1860-80.
1860-1880
Pendant in form of plastic model of "Heinz" gherkin
1885-1895
Four ivory charity collection tallies
1863-1880
Gold, porcelain, and ivory denture set
1840-1860
Dental impression tray
1830-1850
Monaural stethoscope and percussor
1846-1855
Display case of specimens of cinchona calisaya bark
1830-1880
Bird cage from Sussex Lunatic Asylum
1872
Pharmacy leech jar
1831-1870
Display carboy with stopper on stand
1840-1890
Wine glass used by Joseph Lister as a culture glass
1860-1880
Set of six test tubes with stand, used by Joseph Lister
1875-1878
Nitrous oxide cylinder
1840-1868
Neolithic flint scraper
4000-2001 BCE
Croll Testimonial silver gilt fountain, Parcel-gilt Victorian silver rosewater fountain designed as a table centrepiece
1870
Great Western Railway locomotive headlamp
1897
Royal footwarmer, Great Western Railway
1856
Presentation scissors, SS Vienna
1894
Tobacco tin - George Pearson, Darlington Conductor on the Great North of England Railway Coaches, April 13 1841
1841
Great Western Railway locomotive headlamp
1897
Windsor mantle clock
1845-1855
Brass station bell, Manchester & Leeds Railway
1839
Jug showing the entrance to the Liverpool & Manchester Railway
1830
Pendulum clock designed by Galileo in 1642 and made by his son in 1649, model.
1642-1649 (original); 1883 (model)