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Place
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Date

Column dial by Henry Robert

1831-1870

James Watt and the Steam Engine Print

1860

Charles Green Aeronaut

1836

Hand loom

1825-1835

Half-penny coin

1806

East Indiaman Herefordshire

1815

Architect's model of S&J Watts' warehouse

1850-1856

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

1850-1859

Signal Block Bell, South Eastern Railway

1862

Henley needle galvanometer, 1855-1860

1855-1860

Specimen of Dover-Calais telegraph cable, 1851

1851

Ready reckoner for ship's cargoes

1807

Model of Arthur Parsey's compressed air locomotive, 1845

1845

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

1857-1858

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

Stock Exchange automatic telegraph, 1872-1880

1872-1880

Clark's block signalling telegraph instrument, 1854

1854

Trough battery, 1801-1838

1801-1838

Mirror galvanometer for the transatlantic telegraph, 1858

1858

Pair of dental forceps

1820-1855

Wheatstone automatic tape transmitter, 1840-1860

1840-1860

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

Stipple-engraved portrait of Benjamin Martin

1815

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

Magnetic key, 1850-1870

1850-1870

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

1865-1866

Reproduction in wood. No 127

1808

A.B.C. telegraph transmitter, 1835-1845

1835-1845

Morse key, 1850-1870.

1850-1870

Wine glass possibly used as a culture glass by Joseph Lister

1860-1877

Letter opener with calendar and map, 1893-1894

1893-4

Replica of the first Morse telegraph, 1835

1934

Brass amulet to protect the wearer from cholera, France, 1820-1880

1820-1880

Stroh's type-printer for Wheatstone ABC communicator, 1870-1881

1870-1881

Single-needle telegraph by W. F. Cooke, 1840-1860

1840-1860

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

1879

Phrenological (Spreading) Calipers

1820-1850

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

Single needle telegraph, 1846

1846

Gordon universal type dental forceps

1835-1870

Sample of submarine telegraph cable, 1866

1866