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Specimen of First Telegraph Line, 1837

1837

Model railway turntable

1850

London & Birmingham Railway Guard's Clock, 1837-1839

1838

Silver lancet case, empty

1833

Schwann's microscope (no case)

1835

Dagron microphotographic camera

circa 1860

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

1835-1845

Stockton & Darlington Railway carriage

1847

Bodmin & Wadebridge Railway 3rd Class open railway carriage, 1834

1834

Dandy cart and horse

1845-1855

Swannington Incline Winding Engine, Leicester & Swannington Railway, 1832

1832

Bodmin & Wadebridge Railway, composite 1st & 2nd class railway carriage

1834

Bodmin & Wadebridge Railway 2nd Class railway carriage, 1834

1834

Double beam engine model

1840-1851

Cooke's train signalling instrument of 1845, Norfolk Railway

1845

Single-needle block instrument

1845

England and her Soldiers

1859

London & Birmingham Railway pocket watch

1842

seal die - Colne Valley and Halstead Railway

1856

Mirror galvanometer for the transatlantic telegraph, 1858

1858

Thomson's mirror marine galvanometer, 1858

1858

Specimen of Dover-Calais telegraph cable, 1851

1851

Single needle telegraph, 1846

1846

Cooke and Wheatstone double needle telegraph, 1844

1844

Replica of the first Morse telegraph, 1835

1934

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

1857-1858

Keyboard for transmitting telegraphic messages, 1845-1851

1845-1851

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

1857-1858

Machine used for covering wires with silk and cotton, 1837

1837

Cooke and Wheatstone's double needle telegraph, 1844

1844

Sample of the first transatlantic cable, 1857-1858

1857-1858

One of the First Rechargeable Batteries, about 1860

1860

Letter written by William Thomson (Lord Kelvin), 1858

1858-03-02

Marine chronometer by E. Barthet, found on an abandoned ship

1840

Silver kettle presented to Benjamin Lewis Vulliamy (1780 – 1854)

1849

John Ellis

1858

Great Western Railway model of 'Iron Duke', 1851

1851

great north of england railway bye laws notice

1842

Charles Green Aeronaut

1836

Thames Tunnel opening commemorative medal, 1843

1843

Truncheon, ebony, England, 1849

1849

Cooke and Wheatstone five-needle telegraph

1837

Bright's bell telegraph, 1855

1855

Specimen of telegraph cable laid in Birmingham in 1856

1856

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

1848-1852

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

1840-1860

Clark's block signalling telegraph instrument, 1854

1854

Wheatstone's portable ABC telegraph, 1858

1858

Henley needle galvanometer, 1855-1860

1855-1860

Wheatstone printing telegraph, 1841

1841