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Wivenhoe & Brightlingsea Railway

1861

seal die - Bishop Stortford, Dunmow and Braintree railway

1861

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

1876

Mirror galvanometer for the transatlantic telegraph, 1858

1858

Thomson's mirror marine galvanometer, 1858

1858

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

1865-1866

Atlantic cable specimen, 1865

1865

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

One of the First Rechargeable Batteries, about 1860

1860

Letter written by William Thomson (Lord Kelvin), 1858

1858-03-02

Columnar Engine, 1862

1862

John Ellis

1858

Great Western Railway model of 'Iron Duke', 1851

1851

Two copper and zinc chains, France, 1855-1870

1855-1870

Signal Block Bell, South Eastern Railway

1862

Bright's bell telegraph, 1855

1855

Specimen of telegraph cable laid in Birmingham in 1856

1856

Wheatstone receiver (Morse inker), 1867

1867

Clark's block signalling telegraph instrument, 1854

1854

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

Obstetrical forceps

1870s

Purse presented to George Hall esq

1853

Silver model of the Eleanor Cross at Charing Cross Station

1867-1868

Tobacco box - made from a piece of roman lead pipe

1854

Novelty model

1955; 1830

Basin from a pan closet

1860-1870

Islay shipwreck components

1857

Nameplate, London & North Western Railway - "John Ramsbottom"

1872

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

Design for a mirror back in ivoride

1870-1875

Drawing, design for a mirror back / unsigned

1870-1875

Domestic Sewing Machine for chain stitich

1868