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

1865

London & South Western Railway Shark 2-4-0

circa 1868

Model of Grew's locomotive for ice

circa 1861

Ramsbottom speed indicator

1860

Early binaural stethoscope

1861-1866

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

1865

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

1865-1866

Sample of submarine telegraph cable, 1866

1866

Atlantic cable specimen, 1865

1865

Letter opener with calendar and map, 1893-1894

1893-4

One of the First Rechargeable Batteries, about 1860

1860

One of four original Swan and Raven models

1867

One of four original Swan and Raven models used by Froude

1867

Remington 44 Revolver

1863-1865

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

Replica of the first Morse telegraph, 1835

1934

Wheatstone receiver (Morse inker), 1867

1867

Sample of gutta percha insulated cable, 1863-7

1863-7

Glass pharmacy storage bottle

1864

Novelty model

1955; 1830

England and her Soldiers

1859

Columnar Engine, 1862

1862

James Watt and the Steam Engine Print

1860

Silver model of the Eleanor Cross at Charing Cross Station

1867-1868

Model of the Lowe-Vansittart Screw Propeller Blades

1869

Signal Block Bell, South Eastern Railway

1862

Lid for Self Cleansing carbon filter

circa 1861

Facsimile 1865 homemade telephone, 1888

1888

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

1860

Domestic Sewing Machine for chain stitich

1868

'Haystack' Boiler, 1775-1799

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

North Eastern Railway locomotive Aerolite

1869

Freud electronic laughing ball

1990-96

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

after 1859

Map of England and Wales jigsaw puzzle

circa 1860

Child's ceramic alphabet bowl, North Staffordshire Railway

1860

newhaven harbour co bridge byelaws notice

1867

Sample of transatlantic cable, 1865-66

1865-1866

Atmospheric Engine by John Smeaton, 1772

1772 (original); 1919 (model)

'Wagon' Boiler, 19th Century

1801-1840 (original); 1901 (model)

Tables of lifetimes, annuities, and premiums

1864

Neolithic flint scraper

4000-2001 BCE

Writing machine for blind people, United Kingdom, 1862

1862

Paddlewheel used by James Joule

c1860

Sectional Model of a Beam Engine, 1866.

1866

Sample of Bessemer Steel

1860

Larmuth Loom

circa 1860

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

1860-1866

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

1705-1737

Polarized 'guillotine' relay, 1862-1866

1862-1866