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Category
Collection
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Object type
Place
Material
Date

Edison telephone peg switchboard and pegs, 1879

1879

C.W. transmitter/receiver, Mk.1, 1917

1917

Thomson's mirror galvanometer, 1858

1858

Filings coherer, Lodge-Muirhead system, 1900-1910

1900-1910

Cooke and Wheatstone 5-needle telegraph, 1837

1837

'Thunder pump' magneto-electric device, 1856

1856

Letter to The Atlantic Telegraph Company, 1859

1859

Coherer, coarse iron turnings, 1894-1904

1894-1904

Filings coherer, glass tube formed into bulbs at each end at right angles, 1899

1899

Cooke and Wheatstone's A.B.C. telegraph receiver, 1839-1840

1839-1840

Filings coherer, glass tube, 1898

1898

Dog ornament moulded from gutta percha, 1850-1900

1850-1900

Receiving ‘jigger’ used by the Marconi Company, 1898

1898

Filings coherer, small glass tube with bulb at one end, 1894-1904

1894-1904

Filings coherer, glass tube capped at ends, 1894-1904

1894-1904

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

1856-1857

Lead weight marked 'Reid' from the first cross-Channel telegraph cable, 1850.

1850

Filings coherer, glass tube bent at 45-degree angle at one end to form side-pocket, 1898

1898

Coherer, with steel needle inside part-wound with copper wire, 1894-1904

1894-1904

Filings coherer, Lodge-Muirhead system, 1900-1910

1900-1910

Iron borings coherer (Branly type), 1894

1894

Horseshoe magnet and keep used with experimental form of magnetic detector, 1900-1910

1900-1910

Portrait bust of Lord Kelvin, 1896

1896

Branly tripod coherer, 1900-1910

1900-1910

Coherer, with several needles, 1894-1904

1894-1904

Original wheel or steel-disc coherer, 1902

1902

Transmitting keys for Five-needle telegraph, 1837-1846

1837-1846

Section of first telegraph cable, 1837

1837

Marine chronometer by Charles Shepherd

1840-1850

Watch by Sir John Bennett

1884

Chronometer escapement in domed glazed case by William T. Heyes

1903

Watch made for the 1851 Great Exhibition by Alexander Watkins

1851

Watch with complications and minute repeating by Samuel Smith & Son

1899

Signal Lamp, Stockton & Darlington Railway

1840

Model of Woods' Vane Signal

c.1912

Model of Gregory's semaphore signal

c.1912

Ottawa & Gatineau Valley Railway commemorative salver

1893

Model of Behr high speed monorail

1904

model twin-screw steamship rhyl

1911

Telegraph block instrument; Walker's

1865

Spagnoletti intermediate signalling instrument

1885

Block instrument (lock and block)

1897

Telegraph block instrument; South Eastern Railway; Walker's patent No. 245

1855

Cammann type binaural stethoscope

1845-1855

Braiding Machine

circa 1900

Oil painting depicting Robert Stephenson

circa 1850s

Caledonian express no 938

1915

model ger t19 locomotive

1905

model London & South Western Railway steam locomotive

1903

model ner tennant locomotive

1890