James Watt and the Steam Engine Print
1860
Dye Sample
circa 1890
Dye Sample
circa 1890
Dye Sample
circa 1890
Sample of Acid Yellow Dye
circa 1890
Scutcher, made by Platt Brothers & Co. Ltd
1889
Signal Block Bell, South Eastern Railway
1862
Silver medal, commemorates the International Health Exhibition
1884
Small printing forme representing Linotype set matter
1886
Marine thermometer by Negretti and Zambra
1890
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
Stock Exchange automatic telegraph, 1872-1880
1872-1880
Experimental carbon block microphone, 1878-1890
1878-1890
Clark's block signalling telegraph instrument, 1854
1854
'Pock-marked faces: A curious illusion', anti-vaccination leaflet
1880-1890
Mirror galvanometer for the transatlantic telegraph, 1858
1858
Edison telephone, 1879
1879
Syntonic Leyden jars, 1880-1889
1880-1889
Bright's bell telegraph, 1855
1855
Wine glass possibly used as a culture glass by Joseph Lister
1860-1877
Specimen of telegraph cable laid in Birmingham in 1856
1856
Model steam locomotive
1890
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
Powdered graphite microphone, 1878-1890
1878-1890
Lord Kelvin's 'ironclad' marine galvanometer, 1865-1866
1865-1866
Wine glass possibly used as a culture glass by Joseph Lister
1860-1877
Experimental carbon pencil microphone, 1878-1890
1878-1890
Ring transformer, 1892
1892
Letter opener with calendar and map, 1893-1894
1893-4
Replica of the first Morse telegraph, 1835
1934
Stroh's type-printer for Wheatstone ABC communicator, 1870-1881
1870-1881
Engraving: Watt's first experiment. Marcus Stone ARA pinxt; Herbert Bourne sculpt; published by Appleton & Co
1879
Sample of deep-sea section of first transatlantic cable, 1857-1858
1857-1858
Replica of Bell's 1876 'iron-box' receiver, 1959
1876
Sample of submarine telegraph cable, 1866
1866
Experimental microphone, 1878-1890
1878-1890
Wheatstone receiver (Morse inker), 1867
1867
Experimental microphones with carbon pencils and cups, 1878-1890
1878-1890
Wheatstone's portable ABC telegraph, 1858
1858
Bell telephone, mahogany case, 1878
1878
Granular microphone in glass tube, 1878-1890
1878-1890
Cast iron plaque from Queenstown Road Bridge, Battersea, London, 1865
1865
Crossley table telephone, 1879
1879
Sample of gutta percha insulated cable, 1863-7
1863-7
Model steam locomotive
1882
Silver model of the Eleanor Cross at Charing Cross Station
1867-1868