Thomson's mirror galvanometer, 1858
1858
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
Cryptograph (coding and decoding machine) by Sir Charles Wheatstone, 1843-1875
1843-1875
Polarized 'guillotine' relay, 1862-1866
1862-1866
Clockwork interruptor, once owned by David Hughes, 1875-1880
1875-1880
Magneto-electrometer, 1857
1857
Hughes microphone detector, 1865-1875
1865-1875
Sample of transatlantic cable, 1865-66
1865-1866
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
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
Clock dial marked 'Potter, Railway Time', 1840-1880
1840-1880
Cooke and Wheatstone's ABC telegraph transmitter
1840
Marine chronometer by Charles Shepherd
1840-1850
Gold lever watch by George Blackie
1873
Watch by Sir John Bennett
1884
Watch made for the 1851 Great Exhibition by Alexander Watkins
1851
Holmes' arc lamp from South Foreland Lighthouse, about 1860-80.
1860-1880
Whitworth Planing Machine
circa 1842
Four ivory charity collection tallies
1863-1880
Gold, porcelain, and ivory denture set
1840-1860
Two lancets in a patterned silver case
1844
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
Glass flask containing urine
1865-1877
Carbolic steam spray used by Joseph Lister
1866-1870
Steam locomotive, 'Bauxite'
1874
Croll Testimonial silver gilt fountain, Parcel-gilt Victorian silver rosewater fountain designed as a table centrepiece
1870
Royal footwarmer, Great Western Railway
1856
earthenware commemorative plate displaying the company seal of the Hull & Hornsea Railway
1860
Bronze bust of William Stuart
1855
Model of the "Planet" Locomotive
1830 (original); 1967 (model)
Five-needle train signalling instrument used on the London and Blackwall Railway
1840
Bust of James Watt in Parian Ware made by Josiah Wedgwood & Sons from original by E.W. Wyon
after 1859
Wrap reel/Hank winder
1877
Lancashire Loom
circa 1880
Larmuth Loom
circa 1860
Model of a Power Loom for Plain Weaving
1857
Windsor mantle clock
1845-1855
Parsons' steam turbine generator, 1884
1884
Portrait of Isaac Newton
1862-1863
Mobile cellular telephone (Motorola 'Flip Phone') model no. F09SQD8955AB
1990-95
Improved Patent Magneto Electric Machine for nervous diseases
1862