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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

Brass worksplate no 517, Manning Wardle & Co

1875

Ramsbottom speed indicator

1860

Aveling and Porter steam traction engine

circa 1871

Longcase clock, Stephenson & Co's Locomotive Works

1857

model sykes lock and block signalling system

1875

One of four original Swan and Raven models

1867

One of four original Swan and Raven models used by Froude

1867

Lid for Self Cleansing carbon filter

circa 1861

Tobacco box - made from a piece of roman lead pipe

1854

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

1865

Marey sphygmograph and case

1857-1870

Early binaural stethoscope

1861-1866

Model of Grew's locomotive for ice

circa 1861

John Ellis

1858

James Watt and the Steam Engine Print

1860

Letter written by William Thomson (Lord Kelvin), 1858

1858-03-02

Silver model of the Eleanor Cross at Charing Cross Station

1867-1868

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

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

1872

South-East View of Sheffield

1855

Clark's block signalling telegraph instrument, 1854

1854

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

Mirror galvanometer for the transatlantic telegraph, 1858

1858

Bright's bell telegraph, 1855

1855

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

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

1865-1866

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

Sample of submarine telegraph cable, 1866

1866

Wheatstone receiver (Morse inker), 1867

1867

Wheatstone's portable ABC telegraph, 1858

1858

Sample of gutta percha insulated cable, 1863-7

1863-7

Drawing, design for a mirror back / unsigned

1870-1875

Glass pharmacy storage bottle

1864

Thomson's mirror marine galvanometer, 1858

1858

Model Draw Door Weir, 1872

1872 (original); 1909 (model)

Novelty model

1955; 1830

Catgut suture

1875