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Signal Block Bell, South Eastern Railway

1862

North Eastern Railway, locomotive 910

1875

Brass worksplate no 517, Manning Wardle & Co

1875

Brass worksplate no 917, Manning Wardle & Co

1884

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

1865

Water from the River Jordan

1881

Stirling single locomotive wheel casting pattern, Great Northern Railway

1870

Stock Exchange automatic telegraph, 1872-1880

1872-1880

Replica of the first Morse telegraph, 1835

1934

Bell telephone, mahogany case, 1878

1878

Crossley table telephone, 1879

1879

One of four original Swan and Raven models

1867

One of four original Swan and Raven models used by Froude

1867

Atlantic cable specimen, 1865

1865

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

1865-1866

Replica of Bell's 1876 'iron-box' receiver, 1959

1876

Sample of submarine telegraph cable, 1866

1866

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

1865

Model steam locomotive

1882

model sykes lock and block signalling system

1875

London & South Western Railway Shark 2-4-0

circa 1868

Model steam locomotive, North Eastern Railway

1884

Fairlie steam locomotive model

1879

Novelty model

1955; 1830

Catgut suture

1875

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

1877

Compound monocular microscope

1870-1880

Obstetrical forceps

1870s

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

Edison telephone, 1879

1879

Letter opener with calendar and map, 1893-1894

1893-4

Stroh's type-printer for Wheatstone ABC communicator, 1870-1881

1870-1881

Columnar Engine, 1862

1862

Wheatstone receiver (Morse inker), 1867

1867

Sample of gutta percha insulated cable, 1863-7

1863-7

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

1878

Drawing, design for a mirror back / unsigned

1870-1875

Glass pharmacy storage bottle

1864

Model Draw Door Weir, 1872

1872 (original); 1909 (model)

Robert Dudgeon’s sphygmograph

1876

William Thomson's Tide Predicting Machine, 1872

1872

Writing frame for the blind, Stockholm, Sweden, 1871

1871

Remington 44 Revolver

1863-1865

Aveling and Porter steam traction engine

circa 1871

Swan electric lamp

1878-1879

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

1870-1880

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

circa 1880

Silver medal, commemorates the International Health Exhibition

1884

Engraving: Watt's first experiment. Marcus Stone ARA pinxt; Herbert Bourne sculpt; published by Appleton & Co

1879

Silver model of the Eleanor Cross at Charing Cross Station

1867-1868