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Model of Grew's locomotive for ice

circa 1861

Dagron microphotographic camera

circa 1860

Thompson's Revolver Camera

1862

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

1865

Ramsbottom speed indicator

1860

Longcase clock, Stephenson & Co's Locomotive Works

1857

Mirror galvanometer for the transatlantic telegraph, 1858

1858

Letter written by William Thomson (Lord Kelvin), 1858

1858-03-02

Thomson's mirror marine galvanometer, 1858

1858

John Ellis

1858

One of the First Rechargeable Batteries, about 1860

1860

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

1857-1858

Atlantic cable specimen, 1865

1865

Sample of the first transatlantic cable, 1857-1858

1857-1858

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

1857-1858

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

1865

Novelty model

1955; 1830

Columnar Engine, 1862

1862

Signal Block Bell, South Eastern Railway

1862

England and her Soldiers

1859

Remington 44 Revolver

1863-1865

James Watt and the Steam Engine Print

1860

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

Specimen of telegraph cable laid in Birmingham in 1856

1856

Letter opener with calendar and map, 1893-1894

1893-4

Replica of the first Morse telegraph, 1835

1934

Wheatstone's portable ABC telegraph, 1858

1858

Sample of gutta percha insulated cable, 1863-7

1863-7

Glass pharmacy storage bottle

1864

Lid for Self Cleansing carbon filter

circa 1861

Freud electronic laughing ball

1990-96

Child's ceramic alphabet bowl, North Staffordshire Railway

1860

earthenware commemorative plate displaying the company seal of the Hull & Hornsea Railway

1860

Telegraph block instrument; Walker's

1865

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

1930 (replica); 1834 (original)

Islay shipwreck components

1857

Thomson's mirror galvanometer, 1858

1858

Map of England and Wales jigsaw puzzle

circa 1860

Portrait bust of Henry Maudslay

before 1857

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

1705-1737

Letter to The Atlantic Telegraph Company, 1859

1859

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

1860

Portrait Bust of Thomas Russell Crampton

1865

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

1856-1857

'Thunder pump' magneto-electric device, 1856

1856

Atmospheric Engine by John Smeaton, 1772

1772 (original); 1919 (model)

Bust of James Watt in Parian Ware made by Josiah Wedgwood & Sons from original by E.W. Wyon

after 1859

Sample of Bessemer Steel

1860

Model of the "Planet" Locomotive

1830 (original); 1967 (model)

Skaife's Pistolgraph Camera

1858