Image
Category
Collection
Maker
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Object type
Place
Material
Date

Signal Block Bell, South Eastern Railway

1862

North Eastern Railway, locomotive 910

1875

Model railway turntable

1850

Architect's model of S&J Watts' warehouse

1850-1856

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

1850-1859

Glass pharmacy storage bottle

1864

Ramsbottom speed indicator

1860

Vulcanite telephone wire insulators, 1850-1870

1850-1870

Sample of gutta percha insulated cable, 1863-7

1863-7

Bridge plaque - 1855

1855

Brass worksplate no 517, Manning Wardle & Co

1875

Railway bridge section

1850

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

1865

John Ellis

1858

Henley needle galvanometer, 1855-1860

1855-1860

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

Clark's block signalling telegraph instrument, 1854

1854

Compound monocular microscope

1870-1880

Specimen of telegraph cable laid in Birmingham in 1856

1856

Letter opener with calendar and map, 1893-1894

1893-4

Stirling single locomotive wheel casting pattern, Great Northern Railway

1870

Early binaural stethoscope

1861-1866

Obstetrical forceps

1870s

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

1878

Model of Grew's locomotive for ice

circa 1861

Stock Exchange automatic telegraph, 1872-1880

1872-1880

Edison telephone, 1879

1879

Bright's bell telegraph, 1855

1855

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

Bell telephone, mahogany case, 1878

1878

Crossley table telephone, 1879

1879

Wine glass possibly used as a culture glass by Joseph Lister

1860-1877

Wine glass

1860-1880

Catgut suture

1875

Wine glass possibly used as a culture glass by Joseph Lister

1860-1877

Wine glass possibly used as a culture glass by Joseph Lister

1860-1877

Swan electric lamp

1878-1879

Self-flushing gutter pipe, England, 1850-1875

1850-1875

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

1870-1880

James Watt and the Steam Engine Print

1860

One of four original Swan and Raven models

1867

One of four original Swan and Raven models used by Froude

1867

Lid for Self Cleansing carbon filter

circa 1861

Tobacco box - made from a piece of roman lead pipe

1854

Longcase clock, Stephenson & Co's Locomotive Works

1857