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Lord Kelvin's 'ironclad' marine galvanometer, 1865-1866

1865-1866

Clark's block signalling telegraph instrument, 1854

1854

Vulcanite telephone wire insulators, 1850-1870

1850-1870

Wheatstone's portable ABC telegraph, 1858

1858

Henley needle galvanometer, 1855-1860

1855-1860

Atlantic cable specimen, 1865

1865

Letter opener with calendar and map, 1893-1894

1893-4

Morse key, 1850-1870.

1850-1870

Specimen of Dover-Calais telegraph cable, 1851

1851

Sample of submarine telegraph cable, 1866

1866

Replica of the first Morse telegraph, 1835

1934

Sample of deep-sea section of first transatlantic cable, 1857-1858

1857-1858

Sample of deep-sea section of first transatlantic cable, 1857-1858

1857-1858

Sample of the first transatlantic cable, 1857-1858

1857-1858

Sample of gutta percha insulated cable, 1863-7

1863-7

One of the First Rechargeable Batteries, about 1860

1860

Letter written by William Thomson (Lord Kelvin), 1858

1858-03-02

Wax portrait of Benjamin Lewis Vulliamy (1780 – 1854)

1851

Wax portrait of George Atkins (1766 – 1855) by Richard Cockle Lucas

1852

Columnar Engine, 1862

1862

John Ellis

1858

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

Early binaural stethoscope

1861-1866

Glass pharmacy storage bottle

1864

Obstetrical forceps

1870s

Marey sphygmograph and case

1857-1870

Model of street-sweeping machine.

1850-1857

Portrait of Isaac Newton

1862-1863

Isambard Kingdom Brunel, English civil engineer, mid-19th century.

1860

Basin from a pan closet

1860-1870

Islay shipwreck components

1857

Royal footwarmer, Great Western Railway

1856

Bullion box containing lead shot

1855

Bridge link

1852

Portrait Bust of Thomas Russell Crampton

1865

Child's ceramic alphabet bowl, North Staffordshire Railway

1860

earthenware commemorative plate displaying the company seal of the Hull & Hornsea Railway

1860

Bronze bust of William Stuart

1855

Caricature showing a publican's dilemma during a cholera epidemic, Europe, c. 1854

circa 1854

Model of the ‘Optimus’ water closet, England

1870

Early submarine cables and grapnel, 1858-1866.

1858-1866

Domestic Sewing Machine for chain stitich

1868

Atmospheric Engine by John Smeaton, 1772

1772 (original); 1919 (model)

Model of a Power Loom for Plain Weaving

1857

York apprentices model train - North Eastern Railway

1870

Cornwall Railway Safety Rattle

1855-1865

'The British Nave' at the Great Exhibition of 1851

1851

Writing machine for blind people, United Kingdom, 1862

1862

Freud electronic laughing ball

1990-96

Spectacles, gold rims

1853