Specimen of telegraph cable laid in Birmingham in 1856
1856
Wheatstone receiver (Morse inker), 1867
1867
Lord Kelvin's 'ironclad' marine galvanometer, 1865-1866
1865-1866
Wheatstone's portable ABC telegraph, 1858
1858
Letter opener with calendar and map, 1893-1894
1893-4
Replica of the first Morse telegraph, 1835
1934
Sample of gutta percha insulated cable, 1863-7
1863-7
Wax portrait of George Atkins (1766 – 1855) by Richard Cockle Lucas
1852
Table chronometer in a gilt-metal and glazed case by Victor Kullburg
1870-1877
Gold watch with tourbillon by Girard Perregaux
1879
Enamel watch depicting the Virgin and Child
1880
Gold amulet in the form of a cobra
2000-100 BCE
Early binaural stethoscope
1861-1866
Compound monocular microscope
1870-1880
Glass pharmacy storage bottle
1864
Robert Dudgeon’s sphygmograph
1876
Marey sphygmograph and case
1857-1870
Model Draw Door Weir, 1872
1872 (original); 1909 (model)
Wine glass possibly used as a culture glass by Joseph Lister
1860-1877
Wine glass possibly used as a culture glass by Joseph Lister
1860-1877
Wine glass possibly used as a culture glass by Joseph Lister
1860-1877
Catgut suture
1875
Wine glass
1860-1880
Signal Block Bell, South Eastern Railway
1862
Bridge plaque - 1855
1855
Stirling single locomotive wheel casting pattern, Great Northern Railway
1870
London & South Western Railway Shark 2-4-0
circa 1868
Clark's block signalling telegraph instrument, 1854
1854
Longcase clock, Stephenson & Co's Locomotive Works
1857
Model of Grew's locomotive for ice
circa 1861
Fairlie steam locomotive model
1879
Penknife with three blades and a corkscrew, owned by William Marwood: executioner
1870-1880
Wood-working brace drill, with button-operated latch chuck, 1875-1885
circa 1880
Operative Society of Bricklayers
1866-1870
Writing frame for the blind, Stockholm, Sweden, 1871
1871
Two copper and zinc chains, France, 1855-1870
1855-1870
South-East View of Sheffield
1855
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
Commemorative spade used to turn the first sod of the River Lee Conservancy's new cutting through Horse Shoe Point
1878
Remington 44 Revolver
1863-1865
Drawing, design for a mirror back / unsigned
1870-1875
Thomson's mirror marine galvanometer, 1858
1858
Henley needle galvanometer, 1855-1860
1855-1860
Atlantic cable specimen, 1865
1865
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
Letter written by William Thomson (Lord Kelvin), 1858
1858-03-02
Sample of submarine telegraph cable, 1866
1866
Obstetrical forceps
1870s