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Category
Collection
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Object type
Maker
Place of origin
Date

Stud field regulator, 1900-1950

1900-1950

'MPB' call sign plaque, 1900-1950

1900-1950

Lucas grapnel, 1888-1960

1888-1960

Coaxial cable sample, 1948-1967

1948-1967

Mirror galvanometer for the transatlantic telegraph, 1858

1858

Letter written by William Thomson (Lord Kelvin), 1858

1858-03-02

Guard lamps on wooden board, 1900-950

1900-1950

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

1865-1866

Ashtray and matchbox holder advertising the Eastern Telegraph Company, 1901-1929

1901-1929

'Leiber's Five Letter American Telegraph Code', book issued 1915

1915

Willis world clock, 1929-1935

1929-1935

Thomson's mirror marine galvanometer, 1858

1858

Atlantic Telegraph Cable Souvenir, 1873

1873-1920

Specimen of Dover-Calais telegraph cable, 1851

1851

Sample of deep-sea section of first transatlantic cable, 1857-1858

1857-1858

Trough battery, 1801-1838

1801-1838

Cable grappling illustration, 1874-1924

1874-1924

Atlantic cable specimen, 1865

1865

Sample of the first transatlantic cable, 1857-1858

1857-1858

Sample of deep-sea section of first transatlantic cable, 1857-1858

1857-1858

Sample of submarine telegraph cable, 1866

1866

Cylinder electrical machine, 1810-1817

1810-1817

Machine used for covering wires with silk and cotton, 1837

1837

Moving magnet galvanometer with dial inscribed "Greenwich Mean Time", 1843-1897

1843-1897

Clark's block signalling telegraph instrument, 1854

1854

Flag from Cable Ship 'Faraday' (sunk 1941), 1923-1941

1923-1941

Billi condenser used for aerial tuning in Newfoundland, 1901

1901

High frequency sliding inductance on wood base, 1900-1950

1900-1950

Wooden pillar insulators, 1900-1950

1900-1950

Henley needle galvanometer, 1855-1860

1855-1860

Thirty pair PVC insulated and sheathed armoured cable, 1933-1969

1933-1969

Copper busbars and ebonite insulators, 1900-1950

1900-1950

Filings coherer, glass tube bent into U-shape at one end, 1894-1904

1894-1904

Coherer with coarse brass turnings, 1894

1894

Stock Exchange automatic telegraph, 1872-1880

1872-1880

Filings coherer, glass tube almost of taper shape, 1894-1904

1894-1904

Steljes ABC type printing telegraph receiver No. 477

1895-1910

Marconi coherer and Admiralty pattern decoherer, 1900-1910

1900-1910

Filings coherer, Lodge-Muirhead system, 1900-1910

1900-1910

Filings coherer, glass tube containing powdered copper, bulb at one end, 1894-1904

1894-1904

Wheatstone automatic tape transmitter, 1840-1860

1840-1860

Syntonic Leyden jars, 1880-1889

1880-1889

Bright's bell telegraph, 1855

1855

Specimen of telegraph cable laid in Birmingham in 1856

1856

Hertzian receiving resonator, 1890-1894

1890-1894

Filings coherer, Lodge pattern with two wires inserted into bulb at one end, 1894-1904

1894-1904

Rotary convertor, 1900-1950

1900-1950

De Forest syntoniser, 1902-1907

1902-1907

Coherer, ebonite, with adjustable contacts, 1890-1896

1890-1896

Coherer, narrow-bore glass tube, 1894-1904

1894-1904