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North Eastern Railway, locomotive 910

1875

Colour lithograph of the S.S. 'Great Eastern'

1850-1859

John Ellis

1858

Stirling single locomotive wheel casting pattern, Great Northern Railway

1870

Mirror galvanometer for the transatlantic telegraph, 1858

1858

Thomson's mirror marine galvanometer, 1858

1858

Commemorative spade used to turn the first sod of the River Lee Conservancy's new cutting through Horse Shoe Point

1878

Writing frame for the blind, Stockholm, Sweden, 1871

1871

Magnetic key, 1850-1870

1850-1870

Replica of the first Morse telegraph, 1835

1934

Bell telephone, mahogany case, 1878

1878

Architect's model of S&J Watts' warehouse

1850-1856

Aveling and Porter steam traction engine

circa 1871

model sykes lock and block signalling system

1875

Brass worksplate no 517, Manning Wardle & Co

1875

London & South Western Railway Shark 2-4-0

circa 1868

Model railway turntable

1850

Two copper and zinc chains, France, 1855-1870

1855-1870

Model of Grew's locomotive for ice

circa 1861

Purse presented to George Hall esq

1853

Remington 44 Revolver

1863-1865

Bridge plaque - 1855

1855

Great Western Railway model of 'Iron Duke', 1851

1851

Letter opener with calendar and map, 1893-1894

1893-4

James Watt and the Steam Engine Print

1860

Specimen of Dover-Calais telegraph cable, 1851

1851

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

1857-1858

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

1865-1866

Tobacco box - made from a piece of roman lead pipe

1854

The Great Exhibition Polka 1851

1851

Atlantic cable specimen, 1865

1865

Sample of the first transatlantic cable, 1857-1858

1857-1858

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

1857-1858

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

1876

Sample of submarine telegraph cable, 1866

1866

Lithograph, Chronological pictures of English History

1850-1859

Caricature of an undertaker hoping for cholera, Europe, c. 1854

circa 1854

View of the Britannia Tubular Bridge

1850

Caricature showing 'The State Doctor' during a cholera epidemic, Europe, c. 1854

circa 1854

South-East View of Sheffield

1855

Cast iron plaque from Queenstown Road Bridge, Battersea, London, 1865

1865

Ramsbottom speed indicator

1860

Signal Block Bell, South Eastern Railway

1862

Engraving of Theory of pulleys (Theorie elementaire des Poulies)

1850-1860

Henley needle galvanometer, 1855-1860

1855-1860

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

Clark's block signalling telegraph instrument, 1854

1854

Bright's bell telegraph, 1855

1855

Wine glass possibly used as a culture glass by Joseph Lister

1860-1877

Specimen of telegraph cable laid in Birmingham in 1856

1856