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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

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

Atlantic cable specimen, 1865

1865

Replica of the first Morse telegraph, 1835

1934

Aveling and Porter steam traction engine

circa 1871

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

1870-1881

Crossley table telephone, 1879

1879

Drawing, design for a mirror back / unsigned

1870-1875

Fairlie steam locomotive model

1879

Model Draw Door Weir, 1872

1872 (original); 1909 (model)

Novelty model

1955; 1830

Robert Dudgeon’s sphygmograph

1876

Swan electric lamp

1878-1879

Penknife with three blades and a corkscrew, owned by William Marwood: executioner

1870-1880

Columnar Engine, 1862

1862

Signal Block Bell, South Eastern Railway

1862

model sykes lock and block signalling system

1875

One of four original Swan and Raven models

1867

One of four original Swan and Raven models used by Froude

1867

Lid for Self Cleansing carbon filter

circa 1861

William Thomson's Tide Predicting Machine, 1872

1872

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

Stock Exchange automatic telegraph, 1872-1880

1872-1880

Edison telephone, 1879

1879

Letter opener with calendar and map, 1893-1894

1893-4

Engraving: Watt's first experiment. Marcus Stone ARA pinxt; Herbert Bourne sculpt; published by Appleton & Co

1879

Wheatstone receiver (Morse inker), 1867

1867

Sample of gutta percha insulated cable, 1863-7

1863-7

Silver model of the Eleanor Cross at Charing Cross Station

1867-1868

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

1877

Operative Society of Bricklayers

1866-1870

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

1872

Glass pharmacy storage bottle

1864

Obstetrical forceps

1870s

Early binaural stethoscope

1861-1866

Compound monocular microscope

1870-1880