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Longcase clock, Stephenson & Co's Locomotive Works

1857

Great Western Railway model of 'Iron Duke', 1851

1851

Model of street-sweeping machine.

1850-1857

Model of Arthur Parsey's compressed air locomotive, 1845

1845

Keyboard for transmitting telegraphic messages, 1845-1851

1845-1851

Single needle telegraph, 1846

1846

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

1857-1858

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

1857-1858

Letter written by William Thomson (Lord Kelvin), 1858

1858-03-02

Sample of the first transatlantic cable, 1857-1858

1857-1858

England and her Soldiers

1859

Bridge link

1852

Four-Wheeled Hand Crane

1850

Lucien Sharpe sheet metal gauge

circa 1850

Palmer's micrometer (replica)

circa 1848

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

1855

Oil painting depicting Robert Stephenson

circa 1850s

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

1846

Railway uniform button, East Lancashire Railway

1845-1859

William Thomson's marine mirror galvanometer, 1850-1900

1854

Islay shipwreck components

1857

Seal die, The Southampton & Dorchester Railway Company

1845

Wooden gable, Brandling Junction Railway

1842

Locomotive Memoranda, Engines

1856

Replica of Liverpool & Manchester Railway 1st Class carriage 'Traveller'

1930 (replica); 1834 (original)

Replica of Daguerre-Giroux camera

1839 (original); circa 1988 (replica)

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

1705-1737

Thomson (Lord Kelvin) double curb transmitter, 1858

1858

'Thunder pump' magneto-electric device, 1856

1856

Portable double-needle telegraph and test set, 1850

1850

Letter to The Atlantic Telegraph Company, 1859

1859

Whitehouse's induction coil, 1858

1858

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

Watch made for the 1851 Great Exhibition by Alexander Watkins

1851

Monaural stethoscope and percussor

1846-1855

Two lancets in a patterned silver case

1844

Neolithic flint scraper

4000-2001 BCE

Bullion box containing lead shot

1855

Royal footwarmer, Great Western Railway

1856

Bronze bust of William Stuart

1855

Model of a Power Loom for Plain Weaving

1857

Windsor mantle clock

1845-1855

model steam, crewe type locomotive

1846

Printing telegraph receiver, 1845-1851

1845-1851

Wheatstone ABC telegraph receiver, 1942

1842

Magneto-electrometer, 1857

1857

Replica of Morse's second model of telegraphy apparatus, 1934

1934

Copy of the Receiver and Alarm Call of Schilling's Electric Telegraph, 1870-1877

1870-1877

Sample of 1851 Dover-Calais telegraph cable, 1851

1851