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Portable double-needle telegraph and test set, 1850

Telecommunications

1850

Sample of 1851 Dover-Calais telegraph cable, 1851

Telecommunications

1851

William Thomson's marine mirror galvanometer, 1850-1900

Telecommunications

1854

Specimen of Dover-Calais telegraph cable, 1851

Telecommunications

1851

Portion of the first submarine cable between Dover and Calais, 1850

Telecommunications

1850

Two lancets in a patterned silver case

Therapeutics

1844

Ottewill folding box camera

Photographic Technology

1853

Bullion box containing lead shot

Miscellanea & Curiosities

1855

Wheatstone ABC telegraph receiver, 1942

Telecommunications

1842

Tobacco box - made from a piece of roman lead pipe

Miscellanea & Curiosities

1854

Furness Railway steam locomotive 'Coppernob' 0-4-0, No 3, 1846

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1846

Single-needle block instrument

Signalling & Telecommunications

1845

Sewing machine by Elias Howe

Textiles Machinery

c. 1846

Queen Adelaide's Saloon, NO. 2

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1842

Bain's chemical telegraph, 1850.

Telecommunications

1850

Henley's magneto electric double needle telegraph, 1848-1852

Telecommunications

1848-1852

Lead weight marked 'Reid' from the first cross-Channel telegraph cable, 1850.

Telecommunications

1850

Grand Junction Railway locomotive 'Columbine'

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1845

Whitworth Planing Machine

Hand and Machine Tools

c.1842

Sample of submarine cable laid between Dover and Calais, 1850

Telecommunications

1850

Palmer's micrometer (replica)

Industrial Metrology

c. 1848

Britannia statue

Fixtures & Fittings from Railway Buildings

1849

Early inhaler for ether anaesthesia

Anaesthesiology

1847-1848

Arthington Tunnel memorial plaque, 1849

Railway Infrastructure

1849

Printing telegraph receiver, 1845-1851

Telecommunications

1845-1851

Single needle telegraph, 1846

Telecommunications

1846

Marble statue of George Stephenson, 1852

Fixtures & Fittings from Railway Buildings

1852

Section of early underground telegraph cable, 1846

Telecommunications

1846

Nasmyth steam hammer

Hand and Machine Tools

1845-1855

Plaster model of the lunar surface

Astronomy

1844

Cammann type binaural stethoscope

Clinical Diagnosis

1845-1855

Keyboard for transmitting telegraphic messages, 1845-1851

Telecommunications

1845-1851

Cheffins's Map of the Railways in England and Scotland

Railway Maps & Plans

1845

Bright's bell telegraph, 1855

Telecommunications

1855

Clark's block signalling telegraph instrument, 1854

Signalling & Telecommunications

1854

Section of underground telegraph cable, 1846

Telecommunications

1846

Booklet of 'Photographs of British Algae: Cyanotype Impressions' by Anna Atkins

Photographs

1843-1853

Thames Tunnel opening commemorative medal, 1843

Coins, Medals & Tokens

1843

Moulded rubber plaque

Plastics and Modern Materials

1851

Monaural stethoscope and percussor

Clinical Diagnosis

1846-1855

Railway bridge section, portion of rivetted girder from Britannia Bridge

Railway Infrastructure

1850

windsor mantle clock

Railway Timepieces

1845-1855

Pocket watch belonging to Joseph Lister

Wellcome (general)

1853

Cooke and Wheatstone double needle telegraph, 1844

Telecommunications

1844

4-wheeled hand crane

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1850

Micrometer type mechanical comparator

Industrial Metrology

1855

truncheon

Wellcome (general)

1849

Dandy cart and horse

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1845-1855

Cooke and Wheatstone's double needle telegraph, 1844

Telecommunications

1844

Lucien Sharpe sheet metal gauge

Industrial Metrology

c. 1850