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Place
Material
Date

Conversation tube hearing aid

1860-1900

Glass-stoppered bottle containing uranium

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

Jones 50-line switchboard, 1879.

1879

Edison telephone peg switchboard and pegs, 1879

1879

Automatic telephone wall, 1900-1910

1900-1910

Zither switch with open-wire multiple and two-motion ratchet drive, 1894

1894

Edison carbon button transmitter No. 32, 1878

1878

Telephone receivers with wooden handles, 1877-1902

1877-1902

Facsimile 1865 homemade telephone, 1888

1888

Bell Transmitter with Membrane Diaphragm, 1875-1877

1875-1877

Thomson's mirror galvanometer, 1858

1858

'Thunder pump' magneto-electric device, 1856

1856

Letter to The Atlantic Telegraph Company, 1859

1859

William Thomson's marine mirror galvanometer, 1850-1900

1854

Bas-relief head and shoulders of Guglielmo Marconi, 1903

1903

Hughes microphone detector, 1865-1875

1865-1875

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

1934

Billi condenser used for aerial tuning in Newfoundland, 1901

1901

Whitehouse's induction coil, 1858

1858

Receiving ‘jigger’ used by the Marconi Company, 1898

1898

Embossing telegraph receiver 1878-1900

1878-1900

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

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

1850

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

1870-1877

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

1853-1857

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

Watch and wrist strap

1908

Watch by Waltham with a Dennison case

1904

Gold lever watch by George Blackie

1873

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

Underwood 1 Typewriter, 1897

1897

Ear trumpet and walking stick combined

1875-1885

Model of human eye

1870

Stuffed "princely Mastigure" lizard amulet

1881-1900

Tongue depressor

1851-1900

Rabbit's foot amulet

1860-1905

Ear trumpet hearing aid

1869-1900

Painted and carved male ancestral figure with headdress

1851-1910

Cot plaque from the Great Ormond Street Hospital

1904

Plaque for cot, Great Ormond Street Hospital

1900

Statue depicting Florence Nightingale

1851-1900

Wooden mask

1871-1900

Ear trumpet

1850-1900