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Category
Collection
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Object type
Place
Material
Date

James Watt and the Steam Engine Print

1860

Signal Block Bell, South Eastern Railway

1862

Silver medal, commemorates the International Health Exhibition

1884

Henley needle galvanometer, 1855-1860

1855-1860

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

Clark's block signalling telegraph instrument, 1854

1854

Mirror galvanometer for the transatlantic telegraph, 1858

1858

Edison telephone, 1879

1879

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

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

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

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

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

1876

Sample of submarine telegraph cable, 1866

1866

Wheatstone receiver (Morse inker), 1867

1867

Wheatstone's portable ABC telegraph, 1858

1858

Bell telephone, mahogany case, 1878

1878

Purse presented to George Hall esq

1853

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

1865

Crossley table telephone, 1879

1879

Sample of gutta percha insulated cable, 1863-7

1863-7

Model steam locomotive

1882

Silver model of the Eleanor Cross at Charing Cross Station

1867-1868

Bridge plaque - 1855

1855

Tobacco box - made from a piece of roman lead pipe

1854

model sykes lock and block signalling system

1875

Brass worksplate no 517, Manning Wardle & Co

1875

Silver presentation whistle and chain, London & South Western Railway

1853

Brass worksplate no 917, Manning Wardle & Co

1884

Marble statue of George Stephenson, 1852

1852

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

1865

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

1877

John Ellis

1858

Stirling single locomotive wheel casting pattern, Great Northern Railway

1870

Operative Society of Bricklayers

1866-1870

Caricature of an undertaker hoping for cholera, 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

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

circa 1854

Drawing, design for a mirror back / unsigned

1870-1875