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Bell telephone, mahogany case, 1878

1878

Model steam locomotive

1882

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

1865

Stirling single locomotive wheel casting pattern, Great Northern Railway

1870

Commemorative spade used to turn the first sod of the River Lee Conservancy's new cutting through Horse Shoe Point

1878

North Eastern Railway, locomotive 910

1875

London & South Western Railway Shark 2-4-0

circa 1868

Model steam locomotive, North Eastern Railway

1884

Writing frame for the blind, Stockholm, Sweden, 1871

1871

Rover 'Safety' Bicycle, 1885

1885

Wood-working brace drill, with button-operated latch chuck, 1875-1885

circa 1880

Brass worksplate no 517, Manning Wardle & Co

1875

Brass worksplate no 917, Manning Wardle & Co

1884

Ramsbottom speed indicator

1860

Mantel clock, presented to T.W. Worsdell - Great Eastern Railway

circa 1885

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

1865-1866

Thomson's mirror marine galvanometer, 1858

1858

Mirror galvanometer for the transatlantic telegraph, 1858

1858

Replica of the first Morse telegraph, 1835

1934

Aveling and Porter steam traction engine

circa 1871

Wheatstone's portable ABC telegraph, 1858

1858

Crossley table telephone, 1879

1879

Fairlie steam locomotive model

1879

Novelty model

1955; 1830

Longcase clock, Stephenson & Co's Locomotive Works

1857

Swan electric lamp

1878-1879

Penknife with three blades and a corkscrew, owned by William Marwood: executioner

1870-1880

Signal Block Bell, South Eastern Railway

1862

model sykes lock and block signalling system

1875

One of four original Swan and Raven models

1867

One of four original Swan and Raven models used by Froude

1867

Lid for Self Cleansing carbon filter

circa 1861

Wise's Patent Train Staff

1886

Stock Exchange automatic telegraph, 1872-1880

1872-1880

Edison telephone, 1879

1879

Specimen of telegraph cable laid in Birmingham in 1856

1856

Letter opener with calendar and map, 1893-1894

1893-4

Wheatstone receiver (Morse inker), 1867

1867

Sample of gutta percha insulated cable, 1863-7

1863-7

Full size wooden model of Beloe's double rail and chair

1877

Model of the Lowe-Vansittart Screw Propeller Blades

1869

Small printing forme representing Linotype set matter

1886

One of the First Rechargeable Batteries, about 1860

1860

James Watt and the Steam Engine Print

1860

Silver medal, commemorates the International Health Exhibition

1884

Sample of deep-sea section of first transatlantic cable, 1857-1858

1857-1858

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

Wine glass possibly used as a culture glass by Joseph Lister

1860-1877

Atlantic cable specimen, 1865

1865

Sample of the first transatlantic cable, 1857-1858

1857-1858