James Watt and the Steam Engine Print

1860

Signal Block Bell, South Eastern Railway

1862

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

1876

Silver model of the Eleanor Cross at Charing Cross Station

1867-1868

model sykes lock and block signalling system

1875

Brass worksplate no 517, Manning Wardle & Co

1875

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

1865

John Ellis

1858

Stirling single locomotive wheel casting pattern, Great Northern Railway

1870

Operative Society of Bricklayers

1866-1870

Drawing, design for a mirror back / unsigned

1870-1875

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

1872

North Eastern Railway, locomotive 910

1875

London & South Western Railway Shark 2-4-0

circa 1868

Model Draw Door Weir, 1872

1872 (original); 1909 (model)

Novelty model

1955; 1830

Catgut suture

1875

William Thomson's Tide Predicting Machine, 1872

1872

England and her Soldiers

1859

Writing frame for the blind, Stockholm, Sweden, 1871

1871

Model of Grew's locomotive for ice

circa 1861

Aveling and Porter steam traction engine

circa 1871

Model of the Lowe-Vansittart Screw Propeller Blades

1869

One of four original Swan and Raven models

1867

One of four original Swan and Raven models used by Froude

1867

Remington 44 Revolver

1863-1865

Columnar Engine, 1862

1862

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

1857-1858

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

Letter written by William Thomson (Lord Kelvin), 1858

1858-03-02

Letter opener with calendar and map, 1893-1894

1893-4

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

1857-1858

Wheatstone receiver (Morse inker), 1867

1867

Wheatstone's portable ABC telegraph, 1858

1858

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

1865

Sample of gutta percha insulated cable, 1863-7

1863-7

Thomson's mirror marine galvanometer, 1858

1858

Ramsbottom speed indicator

1860

Longcase clock, Stephenson & Co's Locomotive Works

1857

Marey sphygmograph and case

1857-1870

Obstetrical forceps

1870s

Early binaural stethoscope

1861-1866

Lid for Self Cleansing carbon filter

circa 1861

One of the First Rechargeable Batteries, about 1860

1860

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

Glass pharmacy storage bottle

1864

Robert Dudgeon’s sphygmograph

1876

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

1865-1866