Replica of Daguerre-Giroux camera
1839 (original); circa 1988 (replica)
Pair-cased pocket watch in pinchbeck and leather outer casing with verge escapement
1705-1737
Model of the "Planet" Locomotive
1830 (original); 1967 (model)
seal die - Colne Valley and Halstead Railway
1856
John Ellis
1858
Thomson's mirror marine galvanometer, 1858
1858
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
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
Gold amulet in the form of a cobra
2000-100 BCE
Bridge plaque - 1855
1855
Longcase clock, Stephenson & Co's Locomotive Works
1857
Locomotive Memoranda, Engines
1856
Telegraph block instrument; South Eastern Railway; Walker's patent No. 245
1855
Skaife's Pistolgraph Camera
1858
Magneto-electrometer, 1857
1857
Replica of Morse's second model of telegraphy apparatus, 1934
1934
Copy of the Receiver and Alarm Call of Schilling's Electric Telegraph, 1870-1877
1870-1877
Replica of Liverpool & Manchester Railway 1st Class carriage 'Traveller'
1930 (replica); 1834 (original)
Islay shipwreck components
1857
Thomson's mirror galvanometer, 1858
1858
Thomson (Lord Kelvin) double curb transmitter, 1858
1858
'Thunder pump' magneto-electric device, 1856
1856
Whitehouse's induction coil, 1858
1858
Chart of the Atlantic showing proposed course of the Atlantic Cable, 1856-1857
1856-1857
Neolithic flint scraper
4000-2001 BCE
Bullion box containing lead shot
1855
Royal footwarmer, Great Western Railway
1856
Bronze bust of William Stuart
1855
Model of a Power Loom for Plain Weaving
1857
Model of the Asklepion at Epidaurus, Greece, 1936
1936
Telescope by Galileo (replica)
1610; 1923
Isaac Newton’s Reflecting Telescope (replica)
1668; 1924
Mobile cellular telephone (Motorola 'Flip Phone') model no. F09SQD8955AB
1990-95
Copy of clay liver used for divination, original from Babylon, 2050-1750 BCE
2050-1750 BCE
Replica of Lightning Conductor by Benjamin Franklin, United States, 1730-1760
1730-1760 (original); 1931-1939 (replica)
Mummy of a peregrine falcon, Egypt, 2000-1001 BCE
2000-1001 BCE
Freud electronic laughing ball
1990-96
Electrotype replica of a 16th-century mariner’s astrolabe
1580-1588; 1930
Earthenware jug
2000-1350
Replica of Roman steelyard, from Pompeii, 79 AD
1-79 CE; before 1914