Image
Category
Collection
Maker
On Display
Object type
Place
Material
Date

One of four original Swan and Raven models

1867

One of four original Swan and Raven models used by Froude

1867

William Thomson's Tide Predicting Machine, 1872

1872

Arsenical cobalt or skutterudite, from Skutterude, near Modum, Norway

before 1889

Marine thermometer by Negretti and Zambra

1890

Carriage key

1875-1890

Crossley table telephone, 1879

1879

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

1876

Bell telephone, mahogany case, 1878

1878

Mirror galvanometer for the transatlantic telegraph, 1858

1858

Stock Exchange automatic telegraph, 1872-1880

1872-1880

Bright's bell telegraph, 1855

1855

Specimen of telegraph cable laid in Birmingham in 1856

1856

Wheatstone receiver (Morse inker), 1867

1867

Wheatstone's portable ABC telegraph, 1858

1858

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

1870-1881

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

Enamel watch depicting the Virgin and Child

1880

Small printing forme representing Linotype set matter

1886

model sykes lock and block signalling system

1875

Lid for Self Cleansing carbon filter

circa 1861

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

Foetal monaural stethoscope

1875-1885

Robert Dudgeon’s sphygmograph

1876

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

1880-1890

Meerschaum tobacco pipe

1880-1890

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

Model steam locomotive, North Eastern Railway

1884

Bridge plaque - 1855

1855

Model steam locomotive

1882

Stirling single locomotive wheel casting pattern, Great Northern Railway

1870

Model ground signal, North London Railway

1888

London & South Western Railway Shark 2-4-0

circa 1868

Model steam locomotive

1890

Clark's block signalling telegraph instrument, 1854

1854

Longcase clock, Stephenson & Co's Locomotive Works

1857

model steam locomotive

1890