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Isambard Kingdom Brunel, 1848

1848

John Ellis

1858

model sykes lock and block signalling system

1875

Model railway turntable

1850

Dagron microphotographic camera

circa 1860

Lid for Self Cleansing carbon filter

circa 1861

Stockton & Darlington Railway carriage

1847

Dandy cart and horse

1845-1855

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

1865

North Eastern Railway, locomotive 910

1875

Cooke's train signalling instrument of 1845, Norfolk Railway

1845

Copper ore from the Bell Mine

before 1889

One of four original Swan and Raven models

1867

One of four original Swan and Raven models used by Froude

1867

Arsenical cobalt or skutterudite, from Skutterude, near Modum, Norway

before 1889

England and her Soldiers

1859

London & Birmingham Railway pocket watch

1842

seal die - Colne Valley and Halstead Railway

1856

Wivenhoe & Brightlingsea Railway

1861

seal die - Bishop Stortford, Dunmow and Braintree railway

1861

Single-lens Cine Camera by Louis Le Prince

1888

Crossley table telephone, 1879

1879

Replica of Bell's 1876 'iron-box' receiver, 1959

1876

Bell telephone, mahogany case, 1878

1878

Mirror galvanometer for the transatlantic telegraph, 1858

1858

Stock Exchange automatic telegraph, 1872-1880

1872-1880

Bright's bell telegraph, 1855

1855

Specimen of telegraph cable laid in Birmingham in 1856

1856

Wheatstone receiver (Morse inker), 1867

1867

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

1865-1866

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

1848-1852

Wheatstone's portable ABC telegraph, 1858

1858

Wheatstone printing telegraph, 1841

1841

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

1870-1881

Letter opener with calendar and map, 1893-1894

1893-4

Specimen of Dover-Calais telegraph cable, 1851

1851

Cooke and Wheatstone's four needle telegraph, 1838

1838

Cooke and Wheatstone double needle telegraph, 1844

1844

Replica of the first Morse telegraph, 1835

1934

Wheatstone automatic tape transmitter, 1840-1860

1840-1860

Cooke and Wheatstone's double needle telegraph, 1844

1844

Sample of gutta percha insulated cable, 1863-7

1863-7

Bain's chemical telegraph, 1850.

1850

Wax portrait of Benjamin Lewis Vulliamy (1780 – 1854)

1851

Wax portrait of George Atkins (1766 – 1855) by Richard Cockle Lucas

1852

Table chronometer in a gilt-metal and glazed case by Victor Kullburg

1870-1877

Gold watch with tourbillon by Girard Perregaux

1879

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

1840

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

1849

Enamel watch depicting the Virgin and Child

1880