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One of the First Rechargeable Batteries, about 1860

1860

Skaife's Pistolgraph Camera

1858

Replica of Daguerre-Giroux camera

1839 (original); circa 1988 (replica)

Great Northern Railway 4-2-2 locomotive Stirling Single

1870

Ramsbottom speed indicator

1860

James Watt and the Steam Engine Print

1860

seal die - Colne Valley and Halstead Railway

1856

Wivenhoe & Brightlingsea Railway

1861

seal die - Bishop Stortford, Dunmow and Braintree railway

1861

John Ellis

1858

London & South Western Railway Shark 2-4-0

circa 1868

Model of Grew's locomotive for ice

circa 1861

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

1865

One of four original Swan and Raven models

1867

One of four original Swan and Raven models used by Froude

1867

England and her Soldiers

1859

Mirror galvanometer for the transatlantic telegraph, 1858

1858

Thomson's mirror marine galvanometer, 1858

1858

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

1865-1866

Atlantic cable specimen, 1865

1865

Sample of submarine telegraph cable, 1866

1866

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

1857-1858

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

1857-1858

Sample of the first transatlantic cable, 1857-1858

1857-1858

Letter written by William Thomson (Lord Kelvin), 1858

1858-03-02

Marey sphygmograph and case

1857-1870

Bridge plaque - 1855

1855

Columnar Engine, 1862

1862

Thompson's Revolver Camera

1862

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

1865

Silver model of the Eleanor Cross at Charing Cross Station

1867-1868

Stirling single locomotive wheel casting pattern, Great Northern Railway

1870

Longcase clock, Stephenson & Co's Locomotive Works

1857

Dagron microphotographic camera

circa 1860

Replica of the first Morse telegraph, 1835

1934

Novelty model

1955; 1830

Lid for Self Cleansing carbon filter

circa 1861

Bright's bell telegraph, 1855

1855

Specimen of telegraph cable laid in Birmingham in 1856

1856

Wheatstone receiver (Morse inker), 1867

1867

Wheatstone's portable ABC telegraph, 1858

1858

Henley needle galvanometer, 1855-1860

1855-1860

Letter opener with calendar and map, 1893-1894

1893-4

Sample of gutta percha insulated cable, 1863-7

1863-7

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

Early binaural stethoscope

1861-1866

Glass pharmacy storage bottle

1864

Obstetrical forceps

1870s

Signal Block Bell, South Eastern Railway

1862

Operative Society of Bricklayers

1866-1870