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Collection
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Place
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Date

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

model sykes lock and block signalling system

1875

Brass worksplate no 517, Manning Wardle & Co

1875

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

1865

Stirling single locomotive wheel casting pattern, Great Northern Railway

1870

Operative Society of Bricklayers

1866-1870

Drawing, design for a mirror back / unsigned

1870-1875

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

1872

Glass pharmacy storage bottle

1864

North Eastern Railway, locomotive 910

1875

London & South Western Railway Shark 2-4-0

circa 1868

Model Draw Door Weir, 1872

1872 (original); 1909 (model)

Novelty model

1955; 1830

Catgut suture

1875

William Thomson's Tide Predicting Machine, 1872

1872

Writing frame for the blind, Stockholm, Sweden, 1871

1871

Obstetrical forceps

1870s

Aveling and Porter steam traction engine

circa 1871

Model of the Lowe-Vansittart Screw Propeller Blades

1869

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

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

1705-1737

Hughes microphone detector, 1865-1875

1865-1875

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

1870-1877

Bird cage from Sussex Lunatic Asylum

1872

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

Nameplate, London & North Western Railway - "John Ramsbottom"

1872

Portrait Bust of Thomas Russell Crampton

1865

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

1930 (replica); 1834 (original)

Design for a mirror back in ivoride

1870-1875

Model of the ‘Optimus’ water closet, England

1870

Drawing, design for a mirror back / unsigned

1870-1875

Domestic Sewing Machine for chain stitich

1868

London & North Western Railway 'Hardwicke'

1873

Steam locomotive, 'Bauxite'

1874

Atmospheric Engine by John Smeaton, 1772

1772 (original); 1919 (model)

'Wagon' Boiler, 19th Century

1801-1840 (original); 1901 (model)