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Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

Edison telephone, 1879

1879

Atlantic cable specimen, 1865

1865

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

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

1879

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

1876

Sample of submarine telegraph cable, 1866

1866

Wheatstone receiver (Morse inker), 1867

1867

Bell telephone, mahogany case, 1878

1878

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

1865

Crossley table telephone, 1879

1879

Silver model of the Eleanor Cross at Charing Cross Station

1867-1868

model sykes lock and block signalling system

1875

Brass worksplate no 517, Manning Wardle & Co

1875

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

1865

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

1877

Stirling single locomotive wheel casting pattern, Great Northern Railway

1870

Operative Society of Bricklayers

1866-1870

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

'Over London-by Rail', Engraving, London, England, 1872

1872

North Eastern Railway, locomotive 910

1875

London & South Western Railway Shark 2-4-0

circa 1868

Fairlie steam locomotive model

1879

Model Draw Door Weir, 1872

1872 (original); 1909 (model)

Novelty model

1955; 1830

Catgut suture

1875

Robert Dudgeon’s sphygmograph

1876

William Thomson's Tide Predicting Machine, 1872

1872

Writing frame for the blind, Stockholm, Sweden, 1871

1871

Swan electric lamp

1878-1879

Obstetrical forceps

1870s

Aveling and Porter steam traction engine

circa 1871

Model of the Lowe-Vansittart Screw Propeller Blades

1869

One of four original Swan and Raven models

1867

One of four original Swan and Raven models used by Froude

1867

Wrap reel/Hank winder

1877

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

1705-1737

Hughes microphone detector, 1865-1875

1865-1875

Copy of the Receiver and Alarm Call of Schilling's Electric Telegraph, 1870-1877

1870-1877

Bird cage from Sussex Lunatic Asylum

1872

Replica of Morse's second model of telegraphy apparatus, 1934

1934

Facsimile 1865 homemade telephone, 1888

1888

Pioneers of Electric Telegraphy at the British Association

1865

Bronze ticket medal for admission and commemoration of the exposition et congres d' Hygiene et de Sauvetage

1876

Edison carbon button transmitter No. 32, 1878

1878

Sample of transatlantic cable, 1865-66

1865-1866

Bell Transmitter with Membrane Diaphragm, 1875-1877

1875-1877