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Material
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Architect's model of S&J Watts' warehouse

1850-1856

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

1850-1859

Purse presented to George Hall esq

1853

Bridge plaque - 1855

1855

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

1865

Stirling single locomotive wheel casting pattern, Great Northern Railway

1870

London & South Western Railway Shark 2-4-0

circa 1868

Model railway turntable

1850

Model of Grew's locomotive for ice

circa 1861

Ramsbottom speed indicator

1860

Early binaural stethoscope

1861-1866

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

1865

Tobacco box - made from a piece of roman lead pipe

1854

Railway bridge section

1850

Longcase clock, Stephenson & Co's Locomotive Works

1857

Great Western Railway model of 'Iron Duke', 1851

1851

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

1865-1866

Specimen of Dover-Calais telegraph cable, 1851

1851

Sample of submarine telegraph cable, 1866

1866

Thomson's mirror marine galvanometer, 1858

1858

Atlantic cable specimen, 1865

1865

Letter opener with calendar and map, 1893-1894

1893-4

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

1857-1858

Mirror galvanometer for the transatlantic telegraph, 1858

1858

Sample of the first transatlantic cable, 1857-1858

1857-1858

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

1857-1858

One of the First Rechargeable Batteries, about 1860

1860

One of four original Swan and Raven models

1867

One of four original Swan and Raven models used by Froude

1867

Remington 44 Revolver

1863-1865

Henley needle galvanometer, 1855-1860

1855-1860

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

Bright's bell telegraph, 1855

1855

Specimen of telegraph cable laid in Birmingham in 1856

1856

Magnetic key, 1850-1870

1850-1870

Morse key, 1850-1870.

1850-1870

Replica of the first Morse telegraph, 1835

1934

Bain's chemical telegraph, 1850.

1850

Wheatstone receiver (Morse inker), 1867

1867

Wheatstone's portable ABC telegraph, 1858

1858

Sample of gutta percha insulated cable, 1863-7

1863-7

Silver presentation whistle and chain, London & South Western Railway

1853

Glass pharmacy storage bottle

1864

Vulcanite telephone wire insulators, 1850-1870

1850-1870

Novelty model

1955; 1830

Marey sphygmograph and case

1857-1870

England and her Soldiers

1859

Two copper and zinc chains, France, 1855-1870

1855-1870

Obstetrical forceps

1870s

Columnar Engine, 1862

1862