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Thompson's Revolver Camera

1862

One of the First Rechargeable Batteries, about 1860

1860

Replica of Daguerre-Giroux camera

1839 (original); circa 1988 (replica)

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

1705-1737

Model of the "Planet" Locomotive

1830 (original); 1967 (model)

Sample of Bessemer Steel

1860

Freud electronic laughing ball

1990-96

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

1865

Silver model of the Eleanor Cross at Charing Cross Station

1867-1868

Ramsbottom speed indicator

1860

Novelty model

1955; 1830

James Watt and the Steam Engine Print

1860

Columnar Engine, 1862

1862

Dagron microphotographic camera

circa 1860

Lid for Self Cleansing carbon filter

circa 1861

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

1865

One of four original Swan and Raven models

1867

One of four original Swan and Raven models used by Froude

1867

Wivenhoe & Brightlingsea Railway

1861

seal die - Bishop Stortford, Dunmow and Braintree railway

1861

Wheatstone receiver (Morse inker), 1867

1867

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

1865-1866

Letter opener with calendar and map, 1893-1894

1893-4

Replica of the first Morse telegraph, 1835

1934

Sample of gutta percha insulated cable, 1863-7

1863-7

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

Early binaural stethoscope

1861-1866

Glass pharmacy storage bottle

1864

Signal Block Bell, South Eastern Railway

1862

London & South Western Railway Shark 2-4-0

circa 1868

Model of Grew's locomotive for ice

circa 1861

Remington 44 Revolver

1863-1865

Atlantic cable specimen, 1865

1865

Sample of submarine telegraph cable, 1866

1866

newhaven harbour co bridge byelaws notice

1867

Sectional Model of a Beam Engine, 1866.

1866

Distinguished Men of Science

1862

Portrait Bust of Thomas Russell Crampton

1865

Child's ceramic alphabet bowl, North Staffordshire Railway

1860

Domestic Sewing Machine for chain stitich

1868

Atmospheric Engine by John Smeaton, 1772

1772 (original); 1919 (model)

'Wagon' Boiler, 19th Century

1801-1840 (original); 1901 (model)

'Haystack' Boiler, 1775-1799

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

Paddlewheel used by James Joule

c1860

Tables of lifetimes, annuities, and premiums

1864

Model of the periodic system of de Chancourtois

1925; 1862

Facsimile 1865 homemade telephone, 1888

1888

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

1860-1866

Pioneers of Electric Telegraphy at the British Association

1865

Neolithic flint scraper

4000-2001 BCE