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Skaife's Pistolgraph Camera

1858

Model of the "Planet" Locomotive

1830 (original); 1967 (model)

Model of Grew's locomotive for ice

circa 1861

Thompson's Revolver Camera

1862

One of the First Rechargeable Batteries, about 1860

1860

Thomson's mirror marine galvanometer, 1858

1858

Thomson's mirror galvanometer, 1858

1858

Builder's whole, rigged model, of SS 'Great Eastern', 1853-1857

1853-1857

Tobacco box - made from a piece of roman lead pipe

1854

Ramsbottom speed indicator

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

Dagron microphotographic camera

circa 1860

Purse presented to George Hall esq

1853

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

1865

Silver presentation whistle and chain, London & South Western Railway

1853

Marble statue of George Stephenson, 1852

1852

Novelty model

1955; 1830

Mirror galvanometer for the transatlantic telegraph, 1858

1858

Bright's bell telegraph, 1855

1855

Specimen of telegraph cable laid in Birmingham in 1856

1856

Wheatstone's portable ABC telegraph, 1858

1858

Letter opener with calendar and map, 1893-1894

1893-4

Replica of the first Morse telegraph, 1835

1934

Sample of gutta percha insulated cable, 1863-7

1863-7

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

1852

Lid for Self Cleansing carbon filter

circa 1861

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

Glass pharmacy storage bottle

1864

Signal Block Bell, South Eastern Railway

1862

Bridge plaque - 1855

1855

Clark's block signalling telegraph instrument, 1854

1854

Longcase clock, Stephenson & Co's Locomotive Works

1857

Henley needle galvanometer, 1855-1860

1855-1860

Atlantic cable specimen, 1865

1865

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

Letter written by William Thomson (Lord Kelvin), 1858

1858-03-02

Sample of the first transatlantic cable, 1857-1858

1857-1858

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

1865

England and her Soldiers

1859

Bridge link

1852

Telegraph block instrument; South Eastern Railway; Walker's patent No. 245

1855

William Thomson's marine mirror galvanometer, 1850-1900

1854

Cornwall Railway Safety Rattle

1855-1865

Portrait of Isaac Newton

1862-1863

Islay shipwreck components

1857

Portrait Bust of Thomas Russell Crampton

1865