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

1865

London & South Western Railway Shark 2-4-0

circa 1868

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

Remington 44 Revolver

1863-1865

Replica of the first Morse telegraph, 1835

1934

Model of the Lowe-Vansittart Screw Propeller Blades

1869

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

Letter opener with calendar and map, 1893-1894

1893-4

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

Glass pharmacy storage bottle

1864

Novelty model

1955; 1830

Columnar Engine, 1862

1862

Signal Block Bell, South Eastern Railway

1862

One of four original Swan and Raven models

1867

One of four original Swan and Raven models used by Froude

1867

Facsimile 1865 homemade telephone, 1888

1888

Domestic Sewing Machine for chain stitich

1868

'Haystack' Boiler, 1775-1799

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

North Eastern Railway locomotive Aerolite

1869

Freud electronic laughing ball

1990-96

newhaven harbour co bridge byelaws notice

1867

Sample of transatlantic cable, 1865-66

1865-1866

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

1934

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

Pioneers of Electric Telegraphy at the British Association

1865

Portrait Bust of Thomas Russell Crampton

1865

Atmospheric Engine by John Smeaton, 1772

1772 (original); 1919 (model)

'Wagon' Boiler, 19th Century

1801-1840 (original); 1901 (model)

Tables of lifetimes, annuities, and premiums

1864

Neolithic flint scraper

4000-2001 BCE

Writing machine for blind people, United Kingdom, 1862

1862

Telegraph block instrument; Walker's

1865

Sectional Model of a Beam Engine, 1866.

1866

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

1930 (replica); 1834 (original)

Model of the "Planet" Locomotive

1830 (original); 1967 (model)

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

1863-07-30

The first Wheeler and Wilson sewing machine, 1866.

1866

NER instructions to engine drivers

1867

Five albumen-silver photographs by Julia Margaret Cameron, 1866-1868

1865

Julia Jackson

1865

Cassiopea

1866

Alfred Tennyson

1866