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James Watt and the Steam Engine Print

1860

Dye Sample

circa 1890

Dye Sample

circa 1890

Dye Sample

circa 1890

Sample of Acid Yellow Dye

circa 1890

Scutcher, made by Platt Brothers & Co. Ltd

1889

Signal Block Bell, South Eastern Railway

1862

Silver medal, commemorates the International Health Exhibition

1884

Small printing forme representing Linotype set matter

1886

Marine thermometer by Negretti and Zambra

1890

Henley needle galvanometer, 1855-1860

1855-1860

Specimen of Dover-Calais telegraph cable, 1851

1851

Coherer with coarse brass turnings, 1894

1894

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

1857-1858

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

Stock Exchange automatic telegraph, 1872-1880

1872-1880

Experimental carbon block microphone, 1878-1890

1878-1890

Clark's block signalling telegraph instrument, 1854

1854

'Pock-marked faces: A curious illusion', anti-vaccination leaflet

1880-1890

Mirror galvanometer for the transatlantic telegraph, 1858

1858

Edison telephone, 1879

1879

Syntonic Leyden jars, 1880-1889

1880-1889

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

Hertzian receiving resonator, 1890-1894

1890-1894

Model steam locomotive

1890

The Great Exhibition Polka 1851

1851

Atlantic cable specimen, 1865

1865

Sample of the first transatlantic cable, 1857-1858

1857-1858

Letter written by William Thomson (Lord Kelvin), 1858

1858-03-02

Powdered graphite microphone, 1878-1890

1878-1890

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

1865-1866

Wine glass possibly used as a culture glass by Joseph Lister

1860-1877

Experimental carbon pencil microphone, 1878-1890

1878-1890

Ring transformer, 1892

1892

Letter opener with calendar and map, 1893-1894

1893-4

Replica of the first Morse telegraph, 1835

1934

Stroh's type-printer for Wheatstone ABC communicator, 1870-1881

1870-1881

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

1879

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

1857-1858

Hertzian oscillator, 1890-1894

1890-1894

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

1876

Sample of submarine telegraph cable, 1866

1866

Experimental microphone, 1878-1890

1878-1890

Wheatstone receiver (Morse inker), 1867

1867

Experimental microphones with carbon pencils and cups, 1878-1890

1878-1890

Spiral spring coherer, 1890-1894

1890-1894

Wheatstone's portable ABC telegraph, 1858

1858

Bell telephone, mahogany case, 1878

1878