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Model of Grew's locomotive for ice

circa 1861

Thompson's Revolver Camera

1862

Bridge plaque - 1855

1855

Stirling single locomotive wheel casting pattern, Great Northern Railway

1870

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

1878

Wood-working brace drill, with button-operated latch chuck, 1875-1885

circa 1880

Ramsbottom speed indicator

1860

Tobacco box - made from a piece of roman lead pipe

1854

Thomson's mirror marine galvanometer, 1858

1858

Catgut suture

1875

John Ellis

1858

Wolferton station master hand lamp

1870-1880

Specimen of Dover-Calais telegraph cable, 1851

1851

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

1857-1858

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

Sample of submarine telegraph cable, 1866

1866

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

1865

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

circa 1854

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

circa 1854

James Watt and the Steam Engine Print

1860

The Great Exhibition Polka 1851

1851

Engraving: Watt's first experiment. Marcus Stone ARA pinxt; Herbert Bourne sculpt; published by Appleton & Co

1879

South-East View of Sheffield

1855

Aveling and Porter steam traction engine

circa 1871

One of four original Swan and Raven models

1867

One of four original Swan and Raven models used by Froude

1867

Longcase clock, Stephenson & Co's Locomotive Works

1857

model sykes lock and block signalling system

1875

North Eastern Railway, locomotive 910

1875

Letter opener with calendar and map, 1893-1894

1893-4

Purse presented to George Hall esq

1853

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

1865

Full size wooden model of Beloe's double rail and chair

1877

London & South Western Railway Shark 2-4-0

circa 1868

Great Western Railway model of 'Iron Duke', 1851

1851

Stock Exchange automatic telegraph, 1872-1880

1872-1880

Letter written by William Thomson (Lord Kelvin), 1858

1858-03-02

Replica of the first Morse telegraph, 1835

1934

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

1876

Bell telephone, mahogany case, 1878

1878

Brass worksplate no 517, Manning Wardle & Co

1875

Early binaural stethoscope

1861-1866

Remington 44 Revolver

1863-1865

Marey sphygmograph and case

1857-1870

Lid for Self Cleansing carbon filter

circa 1861

Penknife with three blades and a corkscrew, owned by William Marwood: executioner

1870-1880

Henley needle galvanometer, 1855-1860

1855-1860

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE