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North Eastern Railway, locomotive 910

1875

Colour lithograph of the S.S. 'Great Eastern'

1850-1859

John Ellis

1858

Isambard Kingdom Brunel, 1848

1848

Stirling single locomotive wheel casting pattern, Great Northern Railway

1870

Longcase clock, Stephenson & Co's Locomotive Works

1857

Mirror galvanometer for the transatlantic telegraph, 1858

1858

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

1865-1866

Thomson's mirror marine galvanometer, 1858

1858

Catgut suture

1875

Letter opener with calendar and map, 1893-1894

1893-4

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

1878

Writing frame for the blind, Stockholm, Sweden, 1871

1871

Stock Exchange automatic telegraph, 1872-1880

1872-1880

Magnetic key, 1850-1870

1850-1870

Replica of the first Morse telegraph, 1835

1934

Bell telephone, mahogany case, 1878

1878

Marey sphygmograph and case

1857-1870

Early binaural stethoscope

1861-1866

Architect's model of S&J Watts' warehouse

1850-1856

James Watt and the Steam Engine Print

1860

Aveling and Porter steam traction engine

circa 1871

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

1865

Stockton & Darlington Railway carriage

1847

Signal Block Bell, South Eastern Railway

1862

One of the First Rechargeable Batteries, about 1860

1860

Henley needle galvanometer, 1855-1860

1855-1860

Specimen of Dover-Calais telegraph cable, 1851

1851

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

1857-1858

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

Clark's block signalling telegraph instrument, 1854

1854

Edison telephone, 1879

1879

Bright's bell telegraph, 1855

1855

Wine glass possibly used as a culture glass by Joseph Lister

1860-1877

Specimen of telegraph cable laid in Birmingham in 1856

1856

The Great Exhibition Polka 1851

1851

Atlantic cable specimen, 1865

1865

Sample of the first transatlantic cable, 1857-1858

1857-1858

Letter written by William Thomson (Lord Kelvin), 1858

1858-03-02

Morse key, 1850-1870.

1850-1870

Wine glass possibly used as a culture glass by Joseph Lister

1860-1877

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

1879

Bain's chemical telegraph, 1850.

1850

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

1857-1858

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

1848-1852

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

1876

Columnar Engine, 1862

1862

Sample of submarine telegraph cable, 1866

1866

Wheatstone receiver (Morse inker), 1867

1867

Wheatstone's portable ABC telegraph, 1858

1858