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One of the First Rechargeable Batteries, about 1860

1860

Skaife's Pistolgraph Camera

1858

Replica of Daguerre-Giroux camera

1839 (original); circa 1988 (replica)

The Great Exhibition Polka 1851

1851

Purse presented to George Hall esq

1853

Tobacco box - made from a piece of roman lead pipe

1854

Ramsbottom speed indicator

1860

James Watt and the Steam Engine Print

1860

seal die - Colne Valley and Halstead Railway

1856

Wivenhoe & Brightlingsea Railway

1861

seal die - Bishop Stortford, Dunmow and Braintree railway

1861

John Ellis

1858

Model of Grew's locomotive for ice

circa 1861

Great Western Railway model of 'Iron Duke', 1851

1851

England and her Soldiers

1859

Mirror galvanometer for the transatlantic telegraph, 1858

1858

Thomson's mirror marine galvanometer, 1858

1858

Specimen of Dover-Calais telegraph cable, 1851

1851

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

Letter written by William Thomson (Lord Kelvin), 1858

1858-03-02

Bridge plaque - 1855

1855

Columnar Engine, 1862

1862

Thompson's Revolver Camera

1862

Silver presentation whistle and chain, London & South Western Railway

1853

Longcase clock, Stephenson & Co's Locomotive Works

1857

Dagron microphotographic camera

circa 1860

Marble statue of George Stephenson, 1852

1852

Novelty model

1955; 1830

Replica of the first Morse telegraph, 1835

1934

South-East View of Sheffield

1855

Caricature showing 'The State Doctor' during a cholera epidemic, Europe, c. 1854

circa 1854

Caricature of an undertaker hoping for cholera, Europe, c. 1854

circa 1854

Lid for Self Cleansing carbon filter

circa 1861

Bright's bell telegraph, 1855

1855

Specimen of telegraph cable laid in Birmingham in 1856

1856

Wheatstone's portable ABC telegraph, 1858

1858

Henley needle galvanometer, 1855-1860

1855-1860

Letter opener with calendar and map, 1893-1894

1893-4

Sample of gutta percha insulated cable, 1863-7

1863-7

Wax portrait of Benjamin Lewis Vulliamy (1780 – 1854)

1851

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

1852

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

Glass pharmacy storage bottle

1864

Signal Block Bell, South Eastern Railway

1862

Clark's block signalling telegraph instrument, 1854

1854

Bridge link

1852

Model paddle wheel engines of the SS 'Great Eastern'

1853-1857

Distinguished Men of Science

1862