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Place
Material
Date

Tables of lifetimes, annuities, and premiums

1864

Geometrical Groin Vault, string surface model

1872

Cupriferous sandstone from Schweinkopf

before 1889

Felt and Tarrant Comptometer, 1887.

circa 1900

Lucien Sharpe sheet metal gauge

circa 1850

Palmer's micrometer (replica)

circa 1848

Child's Ordinary bicycle (c. 1880)

circa 1880

Rudge 'ordinary' or 'penny farthing' bicycle

1884

Replica of a hobby-horse cycle

circa 1900

Enfield Carbine Rifle

circa 1860

Lithograph of Daniel Spills Ivorideworks by Daniel Greenaway, 1875

1875

Horological gravers

1850-1900

Horological graver with narrow lozenge-shaped profile and wooden handle by unknown maker

1850-1900

horological rubber

1850-1900

Pair-cased pocket watch in pinchbeck and leather outer casing with verge escapement

1705-1737

Carriage key

1875-1890

seal die - Colchester, Stour valley, Sudbury and Halstead Railway

1846

Railway uniform button, East Lancashire Railway

1845-1859

Conversation tube hearing aid

1860-1900

Glass-stoppered bottle containing uranium

1801-1892 (prepared); 1946 (element replaced)

Granular microphone in bamboo tube, 1878-1890

1878-1890

Powdered graphite microphone, 1878-1890

1878-1890

Powdered graphite microphone, 1878-1890

1878-1890

Experimental microphone using steel needles and gas carbon, 1878-1890

1878-1890

Thomson's mirror galvanometer, 1858

1858

'Thunder pump' magneto-electric device, 1856

1856

Type used for original Morse telegraph, 1835

1835

Letter to The Atlantic Telegraph Company, 1859

1859

William Thomson's marine mirror galvanometer, 1850-1900

1854

Cell used in interruptor circuit, 1875-1890

1875-1890

Plaster model of the lunar surface

1844

Hughes microphone detector, 1865-1875

1865-1875

Dog ornament moulded from gutta percha, 1850-1900

1850-1900

Whitehouse's induction coil, 1858

1858

Silver thimble, used to pass a current through the 1866 Transatlantic cable, 1860-1866

1860-1866

Chart of the Atlantic showing proposed course of the Atlantic Cable, 1856-1857

1856-1857

Pen tray made of gutta-percha

1850-1900

Builder's whole, rigged model, of SS 'Great Eastern', 1853-1857

1853-1857

Portrait bust of Lord Kelvin, 1896

1896

Gold watch made for Queen Amelie of France by Henri Motel

circa 1840

Marine chronometer by Charles Shepherd

1840-1850

Larmuth Loom

circa 1860

Gold lever watch by George Blackie

1873

Watch by Sir John Bennett

1884

Watch with complications and minute repeating by Samuel Smith & Son

1899

Holmes' arc lamp from South Foreland Lighthouse, about 1860-80.

1860-1880

Whitworth Planing Machine

circa 1842

One of Fleming's first thermionic diode valves, 1889

1889

Jones 50-line switchboard, 1879.

1879

Edison telephone peg switchboard and pegs, 1879

1879