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Model of Grew's locomotive for ice

circa 1861

Thompson's Revolver Camera

1862

Thomson's mirror marine galvanometer, 1858

1858

Skaife's Pistolgraph Camera

1858

Model of the "Planet" Locomotive

1830 (original); 1967 (model)

Tobacco box - made from a piece of roman lead pipe

1854

Ramsbottom speed indicator

1860

seal die - Colne Valley and Halstead Railway

1856

Wivenhoe & Brightlingsea Railway

1861

seal die - Bishop Stortford, Dunmow and Braintree railway

1861

Replica of the first Morse telegraph, 1835

1934

John Ellis

1858

Dagron microphotographic camera

circa 1860

Lid for Self Cleansing carbon filter

circa 1861

England and her Soldiers

1859

Mirror galvanometer for the transatlantic telegraph, 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

Sample of gutta percha insulated cable, 1863-7

1863-7

One of the First Rechargeable Batteries, about 1860

1860

Signal Block Bell, South Eastern Railway

1862

Bridge plaque - 1855

1855

Clark's block signalling telegraph instrument, 1854

1854

Letter opener with calendar and map, 1893-1894

1893-4

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

Longcase clock, Stephenson & Co's Locomotive Works

1857

Henley needle galvanometer, 1855-1860

1855-1860

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 the first transatlantic cable, 1857-1858

1857-1858

Novelty model

1955; 1830

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

1855

Replica of Morse's second model of telegraphy apparatus, 1934

1934

William Thomson's marine mirror galvanometer, 1850-1900

1854

Locomotive Memoranda, Engines

1856

Whitehouse's induction coil, 1858

1858

Bullion box containing lead shot

1855

Royal footwarmer, Great Western Railway

1856

Islay shipwreck components

1857

Child's ceramic alphabet bowl, North Staffordshire Railway

1860

Replica of Daguerre-Giroux camera

1839 (original); circa 1988 (replica)

Paddlewheel used by James Joule

c1860

Pair-cased pocket watch in pinchbeck and leather outer casing with verge escapement

1705-1737

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

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

1856-1857