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Model steam locomotive

1882

Bridge plaque - 1855

1855

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

1865

Stirling single locomotive wheel casting pattern, Great Northern Railway

1870

Commemorative spade used to turn the first sod of the River Lee Conservancy's new cutting through Horse Shoe Point

1878

North Eastern Railway, locomotive 910

1875

London & South Western Railway Shark 2-4-0

circa 1868

Wood-working brace drill, with button-operated latch chuck, 1875-1885

circa 1880

Brass worksplate no 517, Manning Wardle & Co

1875

Ramsbottom speed indicator

1860

Aveling and Porter steam traction engine

circa 1871

Longcase clock, Stephenson & Co's Locomotive Works

1857

model sykes lock and block signalling system

1875

One of four original Swan and Raven models

1867

One of four original Swan and Raven models used by Froude

1867

Lid for Self Cleansing carbon filter

circa 1861

Cast iron plaque from Queenstown Road Bridge, Battersea, London, 1865

1865

Marey sphygmograph and case

1857-1870

Early binaural stethoscope

1861-1866

Model of Grew's locomotive for ice

circa 1861

Wolferton station master hand lamp

1870-1880

John Ellis

1858

James Watt and the Steam Engine Print

1860

Letter written by William Thomson (Lord Kelvin), 1858

1858-03-02

Engraving: Watt's first experiment. Marcus Stone ARA pinxt; Herbert Bourne sculpt; published by Appleton & Co

1879

Silver model of the Eleanor Cross at Charing Cross Station

1867-1868

Operative Society of Bricklayers

1866-1870

'Over London-by Rail', Engraving, London, England, 1872

1872

South-East View of Sheffield

1855

Henley needle galvanometer, 1855-1860

1855-1860

Sample of deep-sea section of first transatlantic cable, 1857-1858

1857-1858

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

Stock Exchange automatic telegraph, 1872-1880

1872-1880

Mirror galvanometer for the transatlantic telegraph, 1858

1858

Edison telephone, 1879

1879

Bright's bell telegraph, 1855

1855

Wine glass possibly used as a culture glass by Joseph Lister

1860-1877

Specimen of telegraph cable laid in Birmingham in 1856

1856

Atlantic cable specimen, 1865

1865

Sample of the first transatlantic cable, 1857-1858

1857-1858

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

1865-1866

Wine glass possibly used as a culture glass by Joseph Lister

1860-1877

Letter opener with calendar and map, 1893-1894

1893-4

Replica of the first Morse telegraph, 1835

1934

Stroh's type-printer for Wheatstone ABC communicator, 1870-1881

1870-1881

Sample of deep-sea section of first transatlantic cable, 1857-1858

1857-1858

Replica of Bell's 1876 'iron-box' receiver, 1959

1876

Sample of submarine telegraph cable, 1866

1866

Wheatstone receiver (Morse inker), 1867

1867

Wheatstone's portable ABC telegraph, 1858

1858