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James Watt and the Steam Engine Print

1860

Henley needle galvanometer, 1855-1860

1855-1860

Sample of deep-sea section of first transatlantic cable, 1857-1858

1857-1858

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

Specimen of telegraph cable laid in Birmingham in 1856

1856

Atlantic cable specimen, 1865

1865

Sample of the first transatlantic cable, 1857-1858

1857-1858

Letter written by William Thomson (Lord Kelvin), 1858

1858-03-02

Letter opener with calendar and map, 1893-1894

1893-4

Replica of the first Morse telegraph, 1835

1934

Sample of deep-sea section of first transatlantic cable, 1857-1858

1857-1858

Wheatstone's portable ABC telegraph, 1858

1858

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

1865

Sample of gutta percha insulated cable, 1863-7

1863-7

Bridge plaque - 1855

1855

Tobacco box - made from a piece of roman lead pipe

1854

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

1865

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

Thomson's mirror marine galvanometer, 1858

1858

Ramsbottom speed indicator

1860

Novelty model

1955; 1830

Longcase clock, Stephenson & Co's Locomotive Works

1857

Model of Grew's locomotive for ice

circa 1861

Lid for Self Cleansing carbon filter

circa 1861

Bright's bell telegraph, 1855

1855

Mirror galvanometer for the transatlantic telegraph, 1858

1858

Columnar Engine, 1862

1862

John Ellis

1858

Signal Block Bell, South Eastern Railway

1862

Clark's block signalling telegraph instrument, 1854

1854

Thompson's Revolver Camera

1862

England and her Soldiers

1859

Remington 44 Revolver

1863-1865

Dagron microphotographic camera

circa 1860

One of the First Rechargeable Batteries, about 1860

1860

Larmuth Loom

circa 1860

Pair-cased pocket watch in pinchbeck and leather outer casing with verge escapement

1705-1737

Letter to The Atlantic Telegraph Company, 1859

1859

Copy of the Receiver and Alarm Call of Schilling's Electric Telegraph, 1870-1877

1870-1877

Isambard Kingdom Brunel, English civil engineer, mid-19th century.

1860

Replica of Morse's second model of telegraphy apparatus, 1934

1934

Magneto-electrometer, 1857

1857

Facsimile 1865 homemade telephone, 1888

1888

Pioneers of Electric Telegraphy at the British Association

1865

William Thomson's marine mirror galvanometer, 1850-1900

1854

Thomson's mirror galvanometer, 1858

1858

Islay shipwreck components

1857