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Aveling and Porter steam traction engine

circa 1871

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

Silver model of the Eleanor Cross at Charing Cross Station

1867-1868

Two copper and zinc chains, France, 1855-1870

1855-1870

James Watt and the Steam Engine Print

1860

Signal Block Bell, South Eastern Railway

1862

One of four original Swan and Raven models

1867

One of four original Swan and Raven models used by Froude

1867

One of the First Rechargeable Batteries, about 1860

1860

Sample of gutta percha insulated cable, 1863-7

1863-7

Bright's bell telegraph, 1855

1855

Atlantic cable specimen, 1865

1865

Purse presented to George Hall esq

1853

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

1865

Bridge plaque - 1855

1855

Tobacco box - made from a piece of roman lead pipe

1854

Silver presentation whistle and chain, London & South Western Railway

1853

Stirling single locomotive wheel casting pattern, Great Northern Railway

1870

Operative Society of Bricklayers

1866-1870

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

circa 1854

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

circa 1854

South-East View of Sheffield

1855

Glass pharmacy storage bottle

1864

Ramsbottom speed indicator

1860

London & South Western Railway Shark 2-4-0

circa 1868

Novelty model

1955; 1830

Longcase clock, Stephenson & Co's Locomotive Works

1857

Writing frame for the blind, Stockholm, Sweden, 1871

1871

Obstetrical forceps

1870s

Early binaural stethoscope

1861-1866

Model of Grew's locomotive for ice

circa 1861

Columnar Engine, 1862

1862

John Ellis

1858

Thompson's Revolver Camera

1862

Dagron microphotographic camera

circa 1860

Lid for Self Cleansing carbon filter

circa 1861

Marey sphygmograph and case

1857-1870

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

1865

England and her Soldiers

1859

Remington 44 Revolver

1863-1865

Specimen of telegraph cable laid in Birmingham in 1856

1856

Wheatstone receiver (Morse inker), 1867

1867

Wheatstone's portable ABC telegraph, 1858

1858

Thomson's mirror marine galvanometer, 1858

1858

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

1865-1866

Henley needle galvanometer, 1855-1860

1855-1860

Mirror galvanometer for the transatlantic telegraph, 1858

1858

Clark's block signalling telegraph instrument, 1854

1854

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