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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

Sample of the first transatlantic cable, 1857-1858

1857-1858

newhaven harbour co bridge byelaws notice

1867

Sectional Model of a Beam Engine, 1866.

1866

Distinguished Men of Science

1862

Islay shipwreck components

1857

Portrait Bust of Thomas Russell Crampton

1865

Child's ceramic alphabet bowl, North Staffordshire Railway

1860

Domestic Sewing Machine for chain stitich

1868

Atmospheric Engine by John Smeaton, 1772

1772 (original); 1919 (model)

Model paddle wheel engines of the SS 'Great Eastern'

1853-1857

Skaife's Pistolgraph Camera

1858

'Wagon' Boiler, 19th Century

1801-1840 (original); 1901 (model)

'Haystack' Boiler, 1775-1799

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

Paddlewheel used by James Joule

c1860

North Eastern Railway locomotive Aerolite

1869

Tables of lifetimes, annuities, and premiums

1864

Model of the periodic system of de Chancourtois

1925; 1862

Facsimile 1865 homemade telephone, 1888

1888

Thomson's mirror galvanometer, 1858

1858

Thomson (Lord Kelvin) double curb transmitter, 1858

1858

'Thunder pump' magneto-electric device, 1856

1856

Letter to The Atlantic Telegraph Company, 1859

1859

William Thomson's marine mirror galvanometer, 1850-1900

1854

Whitehouse's induction coil, 1858

1858

Silver thimble, used to pass a current through the 1866 Transatlantic cable, 1860-1866

1860-1866

Chart of the Atlantic showing proposed course of the Atlantic Cable, 1856-1857

1856-1857

Pioneers of Electric Telegraphy at the British Association

1865

Neolithic flint scraper

4000-2001 BCE

Cornwall Railway Safety Rattle

1855-1865

Bullion box containing lead shot

1855

Royal footwarmer, Great Western Railway

1856

Locomotive Memoranda, Engines

1856

earthenware commemorative plate displaying the company seal of the Hull & Hornsea Railway

1860

Bronze bust of William Stuart

1855

Telegraph block instrument; Walker's

1865

Telegraph block instrument; South Eastern Railway; Walker's patent No. 245

1855

Map of England and Wales jigsaw puzzle

circa 1860

Replica of Liverpool & Manchester Railway 1st Class carriage 'Traveller'

1930 (replica); 1834 (original)

Larmuth Loom

circa 1860

Model of a Power Loom for Plain Weaving

1857

Writing machine for blind people, United Kingdom, 1862

1862

Bust of James Watt in Parian Ware made by Josiah Wedgwood & Sons from original by E.W. Wyon

after 1859

Early submarine cables and grapnel, 1858-1866.

1858-1866

Portrait bust of Henry Maudslay

before 1857