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Replica of Bell's 1876 'iron-box' receiver, 1959

1876

Bridge plaque - 1855

1855

London & North Western Railway steam locomotive 'Pet' 0-4-0ST

1865

Stirling single locomotive wheel casting pattern, Great Northern Railway

1870

North Eastern Railway, locomotive 910

1875

London & South Western Railway Shark 2-4-0

circa 1868

Catgut suture

1875

Writing frame for the blind, Stockholm, Sweden, 1871

1871

Model of Grew's locomotive for ice

circa 1861

Brass worksplate no 517, Manning Wardle & Co

1875

Ramsbottom speed indicator

1860

Early binaural stethoscope

1861-1866

Cast iron plaque from Queenstown Road Bridge, Battersea, London, 1865

1865

Great Western Railway model of 'Iron Duke', 1851

1851

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

1865-1866

Specimen of Dover-Calais telegraph cable, 1851

1851

Sample of submarine telegraph cable, 1866

1866

Thomson's mirror marine galvanometer, 1858

1858

Atlantic cable specimen, 1865

1865

Mirror galvanometer for the transatlantic telegraph, 1858

1858

Sample of the first transatlantic cable, 1857-1858

1857-1858

Remington 44 Revolver

1863-1865

Replica of the first Morse telegraph, 1835

1934

Marey sphygmograph and case

1857-1870

Aveling and Porter steam traction engine

circa 1871

Model of the Lowe-Vansittart Screw Propeller Blades

1869

One of the First Rechargeable Batteries, about 1860

1860

Henley needle galvanometer, 1855-1860

1855-1860

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

Bright's bell telegraph, 1855

1855

Specimen of telegraph cable laid in Birmingham in 1856

1856

Letter opener with calendar and map, 1893-1894

1893-4

Wheatstone receiver (Morse inker), 1867

1867

Wheatstone's portable ABC telegraph, 1858

1858

Purse presented to George Hall esq

1853

Sample of gutta percha insulated cable, 1863-7

1863-7

Silver model of the Eleanor Cross at Charing Cross Station

1867-1868

Tobacco box - made from a piece of roman lead pipe

1854

Silver presentation whistle and chain, London & South Western Railway

1853

Marble statue of George Stephenson, 1852

1852

Operative Society of Bricklayers

1866-1870

Drawing, design for a mirror back / unsigned

1870-1875

'Over London-by Rail', Engraving, London, England, 1872

1872

Glass pharmacy storage bottle

1864

Model Draw Door Weir, 1872

1872 (original); 1909 (model)

Novelty model

1955; 1830

Longcase clock, Stephenson & Co's Locomotive Works

1857

Robert Dudgeon’s sphygmograph

1876

England and her Soldiers

1859

Two copper and zinc chains, France, 1855-1870

1855-1870