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Model of the "Planet" Locomotive

1830 (original); 1967 (model)

Thompson's Revolver Camera

1862

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

1865-1866

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

Replica of the first Morse telegraph, 1835

1934

Glass pharmacy storage bottle

1864

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

1865

Novelty model

1955; 1830

Letter opener with calendar and map, 1893-1894

1893-4

Sample of gutta percha insulated cable, 1863-7

1863-7

Signal Block Bell, South Eastern Railway

1862

Atlantic cable specimen, 1865

1865

Sample of submarine telegraph cable, 1866

1866

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

1865

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

1930 (replica); 1834 (original)

Facsimile 1865 homemade telephone, 1888

1888

Neolithic flint scraper

4000-2001 BCE

Telegraph block instrument; Walker's

1865

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

1934

Replica of Daguerre-Giroux camera

1839 (original); circa 1988 (replica)

Portrait of Isaac Newton

1862-1863

Portrait Bust of Thomas Russell Crampton

1865

Tables of lifetimes, annuities, and premiums

1864

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

1705-1737

Pioneers of Electric Telegraphy at the British Association

1865

Polarized 'guillotine' relay, 1862-1866

1862-1866

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

1870-1877

Sample of transatlantic cable, 1865-66

1865-1866

Pendulum clock designed by Galileo in 1642 and made by his son in 1649, model.

1642-1649 (original); 1883 (model)

Model of the Asklepion at Epidaurus, Greece, 1936

1936

Mobile cellular telephone (Motorola 'Flip Phone') model no. F09SQD8955AB

1990-95

Telescope by Galileo (replica)

1610; 1923

Mousetrap Camera

1834-1836

Model of the periodic system of de Chancourtois

1925; 1862

‘Autoperipatetikos’ Walking Doll

1862

Reis telephone, 1863.

1863

Isaac Newton’s Reflecting Telescope (replica)

1668; 1924

Model of Gutenberg's Press, 1430

1960-1979

Model of a Montgolfier Balloon, 1783

First Public Demonstration of a Montgolfier Balloon, 4th June, 1783.

1783; 1914

Bronze medal designed by Seidean

1866

Medal commemorating the Grecescu Hospital, Romania

1866

Bronze medal by I.D. Boehm

1863

Bronze medal

1863

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

1862

The International Exhibition (Nave looking west)

1862

International Exhibition of 1862: West front

1862

International Exhibition of 1862: South front

1862

George Fowler Perkin

1865

Tinted lithograph: International Exhibition 1862 from the Exhibition Road. By W.L. Walton

1862

Wheeler and Wilson lock stitch treadle powered button hole sewing machine head

1862