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Model of Grew's locomotive for ice

circa 1861

Thompson's Revolver Camera

1862

Thomson's mirror marine galvanometer, 1858

1858

Skaife's Pistolgraph Camera

1858

Model of the "Planet" Locomotive

1830 (original); 1967 (model)

Ramsbottom speed indicator

1860

seal die - Colne Valley and Halstead Railway

1856

Wivenhoe & Brightlingsea Railway

1861

seal die - Bishop Stortford, Dunmow and Braintree railway

1861

Replica of the first Morse telegraph, 1835

1934

London & South Western Railway Shark 2-4-0

circa 1868

John Ellis

1858

Dagron microphotographic camera

circa 1860

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

1865

Silver model of the Eleanor Cross at Charing Cross Station

1867-1868

Lid for Self Cleansing carbon filter

circa 1861

One of four original Swan and Raven models

1867

One of four original Swan and Raven models used by Froude

1867

England and her Soldiers

1859

Mirror galvanometer for the transatlantic telegraph, 1858

1858

Specimen of telegraph cable laid in Birmingham in 1856

1856

Wheatstone receiver (Morse inker), 1867

1867

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

1865-1866

Wheatstone's portable ABC telegraph, 1858

1858

Sample of gutta percha insulated cable, 1863-7

1863-7

One of the First Rechargeable Batteries, about 1860

1860

Early binaural stethoscope

1861-1866

Glass pharmacy storage bottle

1864

Signal Block Bell, South Eastern Railway

1862

Letter opener with calendar and map, 1893-1894

1893-4

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

Longcase clock, Stephenson & Co's Locomotive Works

1857

Atlantic cable specimen, 1865

1865

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 submarine telegraph cable, 1866

1866

Sample of the first transatlantic cable, 1857-1858

1857-1858

Novelty model

1955; 1830

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

1865

newhaven harbour co bridge byelaws notice

1867

Telegraph block instrument; Walker's

1865

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

1934

Locomotive Memoranda, Engines

1856

Whitehouse's induction coil, 1858

1858

Silver thimble, used to pass a current through the 1866 Transatlantic cable, 1860-1866

1860-1866

Royal footwarmer, Great Western Railway

1856

Islay shipwreck components

1857

Portrait Bust of Thomas Russell Crampton

1865

Child's ceramic alphabet bowl, North Staffordshire Railway

1860