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Edison telephone, 1879

1879

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

Bell telephone, mahogany case, 1878

1878

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

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

Model Draw Door Weir, 1872

1872 (original); 1909 (model)

Novelty model

1955; 1830

Catgut suture

1875

William Thomson's Tide Predicting Machine, 1872

1872

Writing frame for the blind, Stockholm, Sweden, 1871

1871

Swan electric lamp

1878-1879

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

1870-1880

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

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

circa 1880

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

1865-1866

Replica of the first Morse telegraph, 1835

1934

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

1870-1881

Sample of submarine telegraph cable, 1866

1866

Wheatstone receiver (Morse inker), 1867

1867

Stock Exchange automatic telegraph, 1872-1880

1872-1880

Compound monocular microscope

1870-1880

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

Robert Dudgeon’s sphygmograph

1876

Atlantic cable specimen, 1865

1865

Letter opener with calendar and map, 1893-1894

1893-4

Obstetrical forceps

1870s

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

1865

Fairlie steam locomotive model

1879

Wolferton station master hand lamp

1870-1880

Brass worksplate no 517, Manning Wardle & Co

1875

Wrap reel/Hank winder

1877

Curved bottom polishing iron, c.1880

1880

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

1705-1737

Bird cage from Sussex Lunatic Asylum

1872

Facsimile 1865 homemade telephone, 1888

1888

Crossley telephone receiver, 1880

1880