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Place
Material
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Thompson's Revolver Camera

1862

One of the First Rechargeable Batteries, about 1860

1860

Skaife's Pistolgraph Camera

1858

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

1853-1857

Columnar Engine, 1862

1862

Model paddle wheel engines of the SS 'Great Eastern'

1853-1857

Distinguished Men of Science

1862

Portrait bust of Henry Maudslay

before 1857

'Haystack' Boiler, 1775-1799

1775-1799 (original); 1900-1907 (model)

Replica of Daguerre-Giroux camera

1839 (original); circa 1988 (replica)

James Watt and the Steam Engine Print

1860

Purse presented to George Hall esq

1853

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

1865

Tobacco box - made from a piece of roman lead pipe

1854

Silver presentation whistle and chain, London & South Western Railway

1853

Marble statue of George Stephenson, 1852

1852

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

Ramsbottom speed indicator

1860

Novelty model

1955; 1830

John Ellis

1858

Dagron microphotographic camera

circa 1860

Lid for Self Cleansing carbon filter

circa 1861

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

1865

England and her Soldiers

1859

Remington 44 Revolver

1863-1865

seal die - Colne Valley and Halstead Railway

1856

Wivenhoe & Brightlingsea Railway

1861

seal die - Bishop Stortford, Dunmow and Braintree railway

1861

Mirror galvanometer for the transatlantic telegraph, 1858

1858

Thomson's mirror marine galvanometer, 1858

1858

Bright's bell telegraph, 1855

1855

Specimen of telegraph cable laid in Birmingham in 1856

1856

Wheatstone's portable ABC telegraph, 1858

1858

Henley needle galvanometer, 1855-1860

1855-1860

Atlantic cable specimen, 1865

1865

Letter opener with calendar and map, 1893-1894

1893-4

Replica of the first Morse telegraph, 1835

1934

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

1857-1858

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

1857-1858

Sample of the first transatlantic cable, 1857-1858

1857-1858

Sample of gutta percha insulated cable, 1863-7

1863-7

Letter written by William Thomson (Lord Kelvin), 1858

1858-03-02

Wax portrait of George Atkins (1766 – 1855) by Richard Cockle Lucas

1852

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

Glass pharmacy storage bottle

1864

Signal Block Bell, South Eastern Railway

1862

Bridge plaque - 1855

1855

Longcase clock, Stephenson & Co's Locomotive Works

1857

Model of Grew's locomotive for ice

circa 1861