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Replica of Daguerre-Giroux camera

1839 (original); circa 1988 (replica)

Skaife's Pistolgraph Camera

1858

Replica of Islamic Astrolabe

1066; 1876

Pendulum clock designed by Galileo in 1642 and made by his son in 1649, model.

1642-1649 (original); 1883 (model)

Novelty model

1955; 1830

John Ellis

1858

seal die - Colne Valley and Halstead Railway

1856

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

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

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

Bridge plaque - 1855

1855

Longcase clock, Stephenson & Co's Locomotive Works

1857

Thomson's mirror marine galvanometer, 1858

1858

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

Islay shipwreck components

1857

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

Whitehouse's induction coil, 1858

1858

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

1856-1857

Neolithic flint scraper

4000-2001 BCE

Bullion box containing lead shot

1855

Royal footwarmer, Great Western Railway

1856

Locomotive Memoranda, Engines

1856

Bronze bust of William Stuart

1855

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

1855

Model of a Power Loom for Plain Weaving

1857

Model of the "Planet" Locomotive

1830 (original); 1967 (model)

Magneto-electrometer, 1857

1857

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

1934

Copy of the Receiver and Alarm Call of Schilling's Electric Telegraph, 1870-1877

1870-1877

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

1930 (replica); 1834 (original)

Mobile cellular telephone (Motorola 'Flip Phone') model no. F09SQD8955AB

1990-95

Isaac Newton’s Reflecting Telescope (replica)

1668; 1924

Model of the Asklepion at Epidaurus, Greece, 1936

1936

Drawing of Singhi Dalan in Rajmahal, Jharkhand, India

1856-11

Replica of Lightning Conductor by Benjamin Franklin, United States, 1730-1760

1730-1760 (original); 1931-1939 (replica)

Mousetrap Camera

1834-1836

Portable chemical balance

circa 1855

Revised Classification of Merchandise Traffic and Revised Schedule of Maximum Rates and Charges Applicable thereto, proposed to be charged by the Eastern and Midlands Railway Company

1889-02

Dog tickets

1857