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

1865

Model of Grew's locomotive for ice

circa 1861

Ramsbottom speed indicator

1860

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

1865

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

1865-1866

Sample of submarine telegraph cable, 1866

1866

Thomson's mirror marine galvanometer, 1858

1858

Atlantic cable specimen, 1865

1865

Mirror galvanometer for the transatlantic telegraph, 1858

1858

Sample of the first transatlantic cable, 1857-1858

1857-1858

Replica of the first Morse telegraph, 1835

1934

One of the First Rechargeable Batteries, about 1860

1860

Wheatstone's portable ABC telegraph, 1858

1858

Novelty model

1955; 1830

Longcase clock, Stephenson & Co's Locomotive Works

1857

England and her Soldiers

1859

Columnar Engine, 1862

1862

Signal Block Bell, South Eastern Railway

1862

Lid for Self Cleansing carbon filter

circa 1861

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

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 written by William Thomson (Lord Kelvin), 1858

1858-03-02

Letter opener with calendar and map, 1893-1894

1893-4

Sample of gutta percha insulated cable, 1863-7

1863-7

Glass pharmacy storage bottle

1864

Early binaural stethoscope

1861-1866

Remington 44 Revolver

1863-1865

John Ellis

1858

Facsimile 1865 homemade telephone, 1888

1888

'Haystack' Boiler, 1775-1799

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

Freud electronic laughing ball

1990-96

Child's ceramic alphabet bowl, North Staffordshire Railway

1860

Thomson's mirror galvanometer, 1858

1858

Sample of transatlantic cable, 1865-66

1865-1866

Larmuth Loom

circa 1860

Replica of Morse's second model of telegraphy apparatus, 1934

1934

Islay shipwreck components

1857

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

1705-1737

Polarized 'guillotine' relay, 1862-1866

1862-1866

Map of England and Wales jigsaw puzzle

circa 1860

Copy of the Receiver and Alarm Call of Schilling's Electric Telegraph, 1870-1877

1870-1877

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

1860

Magneto-electrometer, 1857

1857

Portrait Bust of Thomas Russell Crampton

1865

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

1860

Early submarine cables and grapnel, 1858-1866.

1858-1866

'Thunder pump' magneto-electric device, 1856

1856