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Category
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Place
Material
Date

Skaife's Pistolgraph Camera

1858

James Watt and the Steam Engine Print

1860

Thompson's Revolver Camera

1862

One of the First Rechargeable Batteries, about 1860

1860

'Wagon' Boiler, 19th Century

1801-1840 (original); 1901 (model)

'Haystack' Boiler, 1775-1799

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

Micrometer type mechanical comparator

1855

Replica of Daguerre-Giroux camera

1839 (original); circa 1988 (replica)

Model of the "Planet" Locomotive

1830 (original); 1967 (model)

Ramsbottom speed indicator

1860

Novelty model

1955; 1830

Columnar Engine, 1862

1862

John Ellis

1858

Dagron microphotographic camera

circa 1860

Lid for Self Cleansing carbon filter

circa 1861

England and her Soldiers

1859

seal die - Colne Valley and Halstead Railway

1856

Wivenhoe & Brightlingsea Railway

1861

seal die - Bishop Stortford, Dunmow and Braintree railway

1861

Mirror galvanometer for the transatlantic telegraph, 1858

1858

Thomson's mirror marine galvanometer, 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

Henley needle galvanometer, 1855-1860

1855-1860

Letter opener with calendar and map, 1893-1894

1893-4

Replica of the first Morse telegraph, 1835

1934

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

Sample of the first transatlantic cable, 1857-1858

1857-1858

Sample of gutta percha insulated cable, 1863-7

1863-7

Letter written by William Thomson (Lord Kelvin), 1858

1858-03-02

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

Signal Block Bell, South Eastern Railway

1862

Bridge plaque - 1855

1855

Longcase clock, Stephenson & Co's Locomotive Works

1857

Model of Grew's locomotive for ice

circa 1861

South-East View of Sheffield

1855

Distinguished Men of Science

1862

Portrait bust of Henry Maudslay

before 1857

Isambard Kingdom Brunel, English civil engineer, mid-19th century.

1860

Islay shipwreck components

1857

Child's ceramic alphabet bowl, North Staffordshire Railway

1860

Atmospheric Engine by John Smeaton, 1772

1772 (original); 1919 (model)

Writing machine for blind people, United Kingdom, 1862

1862

Freud electronic laughing ball

1990-96

Paddlewheel used by James Joule

c1860

Enfield Carbine Rifle

circa 1860

Sample of Bessemer Steel

1860

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

1705-1737