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Category
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Place
Material
Date

Marey sphygmograph and case

1857-1870

Early binaural stethoscope

1861-1866

Model of Grew's locomotive for ice

circa 1861

Stock Exchange automatic telegraph, 1872-1880

1872-1880

Replica of the first Morse telegraph, 1835

1934

Bell telephone, mahogany case, 1878

1878

North Eastern Railway, locomotive 910

1875

Dagron microphotographic camera

circa 1860

Thompson's Revolver Camera

1862

Bridge plaque - 1855

1855

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

1865

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

London & South Western Railway Shark 2-4-0

circa 1868

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

circa 1880

Brass worksplate no 517, Manning Wardle & Co

1875

Ramsbottom speed indicator

1860

Great Western Railway model of 'Iron Duke', 1851

1851

Aveling and Porter steam traction engine

circa 1871

Purse presented to George Hall esq

1853

Longcase clock, Stephenson & Co's Locomotive Works

1857

model sykes lock and block signalling system

1875

James Watt and the Steam Engine Print

1860

Henley needle galvanometer, 1855-1860

1855-1860

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

Mirror galvanometer for the transatlantic telegraph, 1858

1858

Edison telephone, 1879

1879

Wine glass possibly used as a culture glass by Joseph Lister

1860-1877

Specimen of telegraph cable laid in Birmingham in 1856

1856

The Great Exhibition Polka 1851

1851

Letter written by William Thomson (Lord Kelvin), 1858

1858-03-02

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

1865-1866

Wine glass possibly used as a culture glass by Joseph Lister

1860-1877

Letter opener with calendar and map, 1893-1894

1893-4

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

1879

Wheatstone receiver (Morse inker), 1867

1867

Sample of gutta percha insulated cable, 1863-7

1863-7

Tobacco box - made from a piece of roman lead pipe

1854

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

South-East View of Sheffield

1855

Glass pharmacy storage bottle

1864

Thomson's mirror marine galvanometer, 1858

1858

Wine glass possibly used as a culture glass by Joseph Lister

1860-1877

Wine glass

1860-1880

Catgut suture

1875

Two copper and zinc chains, France, 1855-1870

1855-1870

Obstetrical forceps

1870s

Remington 44 Revolver

1863-1865

One of four original Swan and Raven models

1867