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Model of Grew's locomotive for ice

circa 1861

Thompson's Revolver Camera

1862

Ramsbottom speed indicator

1860

Mirror galvanometer for the transatlantic telegraph, 1858

1858

Letter written by William Thomson (Lord Kelvin), 1858

1858-03-02

Thomson's mirror marine galvanometer, 1858

1858

John Ellis

1858

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

1857-1858

Sample of the first transatlantic cable, 1857-1858

1857-1858

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

1857-1858

Replica of the first Morse telegraph, 1835

1934

James Watt and the Steam Engine Print

1860

Dagron microphotographic camera

circa 1860

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

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

England and her Soldiers

1859

Lid for Self Cleansing carbon filter

circa 1861

Longcase clock, Stephenson & Co's Locomotive Works

1857

One of the First Rechargeable Batteries, about 1860

1860

Columnar Engine, 1862

1862

Signal Block Bell, South Eastern Railway

1862

Freud electronic laughing ball

1990-96

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

1860

Replica of Liverpool & Manchester Railway 1st Class carriage 'Traveller'

1930 (replica); 1834 (original)

Thomson's mirror galvanometer, 1858

1858

Bust of James Watt in Parian Ware made by Josiah Wedgwood & Sons from original by E.W. Wyon

after 1859

Islay shipwreck components

1857

Skaife's Pistolgraph Camera

1858

Map of England and Wales jigsaw puzzle

circa 1860

Tables of lifetimes, annuities, and premiums

1864

'Wagon' Boiler, 19th Century

1801-1840 (original); 1901 (model)

Enfield Carbine Rifle

circa 1860

Distinguished Men of Science

1862

Portrait bust of Henry Maudslay

before 1857

Larmuth Loom

circa 1860

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

1705-1737

Letter to The Atlantic Telegraph Company, 1859

1859

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

Child's ceramic alphabet bowl, North Staffordshire Railway

1860

Thomson (Lord Kelvin) double curb transmitter, 1858

1858

Whitehouse's induction coil, 1858

1858

Atmospheric Engine by John Smeaton, 1772

1772 (original); 1919 (model)

Model of a Power Loom for Plain Weaving

1857

Neolithic flint scraper

4000-2001 BCE