Penknife with three blades and a corkscrew, owned by William Marwood: executioner
1870-1880
Stockton & Darlington Railway carriage
1847
Dandy cart and horse
1845-1855
London & North Western Railway steam locomotive 'Pet' 0-4-0ST
1865
Signal Block Bell, South Eastern Railway
1862
North Eastern Railway, locomotive 910
1875
Cooke's train signalling instrument of 1845, Norfolk Railway
1845
Single-needle block instrument
1845
One of four original Swan and Raven models
1867
One of four original Swan and Raven models used by Froude
1867
England and her Soldiers
1859
Remington 44 Revolver
1863-1865
Great Western Railway model of 'Iron Duke', 1851
1851
Wolferton station master hand lamp
1870-1880
Novelty model
1955; 1830
Longcase clock, Stephenson & Co's Locomotive Works
1857
Writing frame for the blind, Stockholm, Sweden, 1871
1871
Truncheon, ebony, England, 1849
1849
Two copper and zinc chains, France, 1855-1870
1855-1870
Self-flushing gutter pipe, England, 1850-1875
1850-1875
Peel, Williams & Peel steam engine
1846
Model of Grew's locomotive for ice
circa 1861
Wood-working brace drill, with button-operated latch chuck, 1875-1885
circa 1880
seal die - Colne Valley and Halstead Railway
1856
Wivenhoe & Brightlingsea Railway
1861
seal die - Bishop Stortford, Dunmow and Braintree railway
1861
Crossley table telephone, 1879
1879
Replica of Bell's 1876 'iron-box' receiver, 1959
1876
Bell telephone, mahogany case, 1878
1878
Magnetic key, 1850-1870
1850-1870
Mirror galvanometer for the transatlantic telegraph, 1858
1858
Thomson's mirror marine galvanometer, 1858
1858
Bright's bell telegraph, 1855
1855
Lord Kelvin's 'ironclad' marine galvanometer, 1865-1866
1865-1866
Henley's magneto electric double needle telegraph, 1848-1852
1848-1852
Clark's block signalling telegraph instrument, 1854
1854
Wheatstone's portable ABC telegraph, 1858
1858
Atlantic cable specimen, 1865
1865
Letter opener with calendar and map, 1893-1894
1893-4
Specimen of Dover-Calais telegraph cable, 1851
1851
Single needle telegraph, 1846
1846
Sample of submarine telegraph cable, 1866
1866
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
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