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

1865

Model of Grew's locomotive for ice

circa 1861

Ramsbottom speed indicator

1860

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

1865

Thomson's mirror marine galvanometer, 1858

1858

Atlantic cable specimen, 1865

1865

Mirror galvanometer for the transatlantic telegraph, 1858

1858

Sample of the first transatlantic cable, 1857-1858

1857-1858

Remington 44 Revolver

1863-1865

Replica of the first Morse telegraph, 1835

1934

One of the First Rechargeable Batteries, about 1860

1860

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

Specimen of telegraph cable laid in Birmingham in 1856

1856

Letter opener with calendar and map, 1893-1894

1893-4

Wheatstone's portable ABC telegraph, 1858

1858

Sample of gutta percha insulated cable, 1863-7

1863-7

Glass pharmacy storage bottle

1864

Novelty model

1955; 1830

Longcase clock, Stephenson & Co's Locomotive Works

1857

England and her Soldiers

1859

James Watt and the Steam Engine Print

1860

Letter written by William Thomson (Lord Kelvin), 1858

1858-03-02

Columnar Engine, 1862

1862

Signal Block Bell, South Eastern Railway

1862

John Ellis

1858

Lid for Self Cleansing carbon filter

circa 1861

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

Facsimile 1865 homemade telephone, 1888

1888

'Haystack' Boiler, 1775-1799

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

Freud electronic laughing ball

1990-96

Child's ceramic alphabet bowl, North Staffordshire Railway

1860

Thomson's mirror galvanometer, 1858

1858

Larmuth Loom

circa 1860

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

1934

Islay shipwreck components

1857

Distinguished Men of Science

1862

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

1705-1737

Letter to The Atlantic Telegraph Company, 1859

1859

Map of England and Wales jigsaw puzzle

circa 1860

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

Magneto-electrometer, 1857

1857

Pioneers of Electric Telegraphy at the British Association

1865

Royal footwarmer, Great Western Railway

1856

Portrait Bust of Thomas Russell Crampton

1865

earthenware commemorative plate displaying the company seal of the Hull & Hornsea Railway

1860

Chart of the Atlantic showing proposed course of the Atlantic Cable, 1856-1857

1856-1857

'Thunder pump' magneto-electric device, 1856

1856

Atmospheric Engine by John Smeaton, 1772

1772 (original); 1919 (model)