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

1876

Bell telephone, mahogany case, 1878

1878

Model steam locomotive

1882

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

Catgut suture

1875

Writing frame for the blind, Stockholm, Sweden, 1871

1871

Model of Grew's locomotive for ice

circa 1861

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

Early binaural stethoscope

1861-1866

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

Stock Exchange automatic telegraph, 1872-1880

1872-1880

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

Remington 44 Revolver

1863-1865

Replica of the first Morse telegraph, 1835

1934

Full size wooden model of Beloe's double rail and chair

1877

Marey sphygmograph and case

1857-1870

Aveling and Porter steam traction engine

circa 1871

Model of the Lowe-Vansittart Screw Propeller Blades

1869

One of the First Rechargeable Batteries, about 1860

1860

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

Edison telephone, 1879

1879

Wine glass possibly used as a culture glass by Joseph Lister

1860-1877

Specimen of telegraph cable laid in Birmingham in 1856

1856

Wine glass possibly used as a culture glass by Joseph Lister

1860-1877

Letter opener with calendar and map, 1893-1894

1893-4

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

1870-1881

Wheatstone receiver (Morse inker), 1867

1867

Wheatstone's portable ABC telegraph, 1858

1858

Crossley table telephone, 1879

1879

Sample of gutta percha insulated cable, 1863-7

1863-7

Silver model of the Eleanor Cross at Charing Cross Station

1867-1868

Operative Society of Bricklayers

1866-1870

Drawing, design for a mirror back / unsigned

1870-1875

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

1872

Glass pharmacy storage bottle

1864

Fairlie steam locomotive model

1879

Model Draw Door Weir, 1872

1872 (original); 1909 (model)

Novelty model

1955; 1830

Longcase clock, Stephenson & Co's Locomotive Works

1857