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Model of Grew's locomotive for ice

circa 1861

Thompson's Revolver Camera

1862

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

1865-1866

Atlantic cable specimen, 1865

1865

Sample of submarine telegraph cable, 1866

1866

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

1865

Columnar Engine, 1862

1862

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

Replica of the first Morse telegraph, 1835

1934

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

Telegraph block instrument; Walker's

1865

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

1930 (replica); 1834 (original)

Sample of transatlantic cable, 1865-66

1865-1866

Replica of Daguerre-Giroux camera

1839 (original); circa 1988 (replica)

Neolithic flint scraper

4000-2001 BCE

Distinguished Men of Science

1862

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

1705-1737

Portrait Bust of Thomas Russell Crampton

1865

Sectional Model of a Beam Engine, 1866.

1866

Tables of lifetimes, annuities, and premiums

1864

Polarized 'guillotine' relay, 1862-1866

1862-1866

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

1870-1877

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

1934

Facsimile 1865 homemade telephone, 1888

1888

Pioneers of Electric Telegraphy at the British Association

1865

Atmospheric Engine by John Smeaton, 1772

1772 (original); 1919 (model)

Writing machine for blind people, United Kingdom, 1862

1862

Model of the "Planet" Locomotive

1830 (original); 1967 (model)

'Wagon' Boiler, 19th Century

1801-1840 (original); 1901 (model)

'Haystack' Boiler, 1775-1799

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

Bronze medal commemorating Francesco Rizzoli of Bologna with gratitude and admiration

1865

Bronze medal by I.D. Boehm

1863

Bronze medal

1863

Silk woven picture by S Lotz of a royal coat of arms

1862

Andre-Marie Ampere

1825; 1910

George Fowler Perkin

1865

medal, copper, commemorating the inauguration of the medicinal waters of the River Lys

1863

Double tongue commutator used by Wheatstone

1861

Hicks patent mercurial minimum thermometer with brass sliding scale

1861

McCallam's patent distance indicator, 1864

1864

Russian Imperial standard, "Vedro"

1862