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Great Northern Railway 4-2-2 locomotive Stirling Single

1870

Thompson's Revolver Camera

1862

One of the First Rechargeable Batteries, about 1860

1860

Operative Society of Bricklayers

1866-1870

Model of the ‘Optimus’ water closet, England

1870

Skaife's Pistolgraph Camera

1858

Columnar Engine, 1862

1862

Distinguished Men of Science

1862

Portrait bust of Henry Maudslay

before 1857

Domestic Sewing Machine for chain stitich

1868

'Haystack' Boiler, 1775-1799

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

Replica of Daguerre-Giroux camera

1839 (original); circa 1988 (replica)

Model of human eye

1870

James Watt and the Steam Engine Print

1860

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

Early binaural stethoscope

1861-1866

London & South Western Railway Shark 2-4-0

circa 1868

John Ellis

1858

Dagron microphotographic camera

circa 1860

Wheatstone receiver (Morse inker), 1867

1867

Henley needle galvanometer, 1855-1860

1855-1860

Letter opener with calendar and map, 1893-1894

1893-4

Sample of gutta percha insulated cable, 1863-7

1863-7

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

Obstetrical forceps

1870s

Marey sphygmograph and case

1857-1870

Two copper and zinc chains, France, 1855-1870

1855-1870

Model of Grew's locomotive for ice

circa 1861

Mirror galvanometer for the transatlantic telegraph, 1858

1858

Thomson's mirror marine galvanometer, 1858

1858

Lord Kelvin's 'ironclad' marine galvanometer, 1865-1866

1865-1866

Letter written by William Thomson (Lord Kelvin), 1858

1858-03-02

Remington 44 Revolver

1863-1865

Lid for Self Cleansing carbon filter

circa 1861

London & North Western Railway steam locomotive 'Pet' 0-4-0ST

1865

One of four original Swan and Raven models

1867

One of four original Swan and Raven models used by Froude

1867

England and her Soldiers

1859

Bright's bell telegraph, 1855

1855

Specimen of telegraph cable laid in Birmingham in 1856

1856

Wheatstone's portable ABC telegraph, 1858

1858

Atlantic cable specimen, 1865

1865

Sample of submarine telegraph cable, 1866

1866

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