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Model of Grew's locomotive for ice

circa 1861

Thompson's Revolver Camera

1862

Ramsbottom speed indicator

1860

Mirror galvanometer for the transatlantic telegraph, 1858

1858

Letter written by William Thomson (Lord Kelvin), 1858

1858-03-02

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

1865-1866

Thomson's mirror marine galvanometer, 1858

1858

John Ellis

1858

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

Sample of submarine telegraph cable, 1866

1866

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

1865

James Watt and the Steam Engine Print

1860

Dagron microphotographic camera

circa 1860

Longcase clock, Stephenson & Co's Locomotive Works

1857

One of the First Rechargeable Batteries, about 1860

1860

Columnar Engine, 1862

1862

England and her Soldiers

1859

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

Letter opener with calendar and map, 1893-1894

1893-4

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

1865

Glass pharmacy storage bottle

1864

Lid for Self Cleansing carbon filter

circa 1861

Specimen of telegraph cable laid in Birmingham in 1856

1856

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

Novelty model

1955; 1830

Early binaural stethoscope

1861-1866

Signal Block Bell, South Eastern Railway

1862

Remington 44 Revolver

1863-1865

Freud electronic laughing ball

1990-96

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)

Thomson's mirror galvanometer, 1858

1858

Sample of transatlantic cable, 1865-66

1865-1866

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

after 1859

Larmuth Loom

circa 1860

Replica of Daguerre-Giroux camera

1839 (original); circa 1988 (replica)

Silver thimble, used to pass a current through the 1866 Transatlantic cable, 1860-1866

1860-1866

Royal footwarmer, Great Western Railway

1856

Child's ceramic alphabet bowl, North Staffordshire Railway

1860

Whitehouse's induction coil, 1858

1858

Neolithic flint scraper

4000-2001 BCE

Paddlewheel used by James Joule

c1860

Distinguished Men of Science

1862

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

1705-1737