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James Watt and the Steam Engine Print

1860

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

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

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

1865

Silver model of the Eleanor Cross at Charing Cross Station

1867-1868

Bridge plaque - 1855

1855

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

Early binaural stethoscope

1861-1866

Model of Grew's locomotive for ice

circa 1861

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

1865

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

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

Sample of gutta percha insulated cable, 1863-7

1863-7

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

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

Sample of submarine telegraph cable, 1866

1866

Replica of the first Morse telegraph, 1835

1934

Letter written by William Thomson (Lord Kelvin), 1858

1858-03-02

Letter opener with calendar and map, 1893-1894

1893-4

Bright's bell telegraph, 1855

1855

Atlantic cable specimen, 1865

1865

Sample of the first transatlantic cable, 1857-1858

1857-1858

Distinguished Men of Science

1862

Portrait bust of Henry Maudslay

before 1857

Larmuth Loom

circa 1860

'Wagon' Boiler, 19th Century

1801-1840 (original); 1901 (model)

'Haystack' Boiler, 1775-1799

1775-1799 (original); 1900-1907 (model)

Micrometer type mechanical comparator

1855

Replica of Daguerre-Giroux camera

1839 (original); circa 1988 (replica)

Paddlewheel used by James Joule

c1860