Image
Category
Collection
Maker
On Display
Object type
Place
Material
Date

Signal Block Bell, South Eastern Railway

1862

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

Atlantic cable specimen, 1865

1865

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

1865-1866

Letter opener with calendar and map, 1893-1894

1893-4

Replica of the first Morse telegraph, 1835

1934

Sample of submarine telegraph cable, 1866

1866

Wheatstone receiver (Morse inker), 1867

1867

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

1865

Sample of gutta percha insulated cable, 1863-7

1863-7

Silver model of the Eleanor Cross at Charing Cross Station

1867-1868

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

1865

Glass pharmacy storage bottle

1864

London & South Western Railway Shark 2-4-0

circa 1868

Novelty model

1955; 1830

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

Distinguished Men of Science

1862

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

1705-1737

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

Sample of transatlantic cable, 1865-66

1865-1866

Portrait Bust of Thomas Russell Crampton

1865

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

1930 (replica); 1834 (original)

Domestic Sewing Machine for chain stitich

1868

Atmospheric Engine by John Smeaton, 1772

1772 (original); 1919 (model)

'Wagon' Boiler, 19th Century

1801-1840 (original); 1901 (model)

Model of the "Planet" Locomotive

1830 (original); 1967 (model)

'Haystack' Boiler, 1775-1799

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

Tables of lifetimes, annuities, and premiums

1864

Neolithic flint scraper

4000-2001 BCE

Writing machine for blind people, United Kingdom, 1862

1862

Freud electronic laughing ball

1990-96

Telegraph block instrument; Walker's

1865

Sectional Model of a Beam Engine, 1866.

1866

The Affianced

July 1867

Annie Chinery Cameron

1868

Poster for Prince's Theatre, Glasgow, with Telbin's Diorama

1863-07-30

Axe head shaped flint

10000-5000 BCE

Iron Weight

1910-130

Cornet

1865

Society of Arts Prince Albert gold medal presented to Sir Henry Bessemer by the Prince of Wales in 1872

1863

Bronze medal

1866

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

1862

Gold medal presented to Sir Henry Bessemer by the Emperor Napoleon III in 1867

1867