Magnetic compass and sundial by Henry Sutton

Navigation

1650-1665

Print, 'Searching Fault' scene on 'Great Eastern' during the laying of the first Atlantic cable, 1865-1867

Telecommunications

1865-1867

Print, 'Interior Tanks', a scene on 'Great Eastern' during the laying of the first Atlantic cable, 1865-1867

Telecommunications

1865-1867

Trademark printing block

Textile Industry

Pye 'Cambridge International' 11-band broadcast receiver, 1953

Radio Communication

1953

Lancashire Loom

Textile Industry

circa 1880

Specimen of Dover-Calais telegraph cable, 1851

Telecommunications

1851

sample of deep-sea section of first transatlantic cable, 1857-1858

Telecommunications

1857-1858

Bell telephone, mahogany case, 1878

Telecommunications

1878

Model of wire screen in octagonal frame used by Heinrich Hertz, 1949

Radio Communication

1949

William Thomson's marine mirror galvanometer, 1850-1900

Telecommunications

1854

Embossing telegraph receiver 1878-1900

Telecommunications

1878-1900

Hairs for telescopes, on piece of wood

James Watt's Garret Workshop

1790-1819

Brush for cleaning textile mill machinery

Textile Industry

1880-1940

carriage ashtray from Quintinshill disaster

Miscellanea & Curiosities

1915

Ribbon loom with jacquard head

Textile Industry

circa 1900

Fireless locomotive, named Imperial

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1956

Theodolite used for the Principal Triangulation of Great Britain

Surveying

1791

Main component of Siemens ‘Elmiskop 1’ electron microscope

Microscopy (Wellcome)

1945-1955

Genoese medicine chest

Materia Medica & Pharmacology

1562-1566

selector switch, 1903

Telecommunications

1903

Early Culpeper microscope

Microscopes

1720-1730

Box labelled 'trip', containing dark red/purple powder

James Watt's Garret Workshop

1790-1819

Cramlington Colliery chaldron wagon, c 1826

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1821-1831

Model of the Blue Star Line T.S. 'Arandora Star'

Water Transport

1927-1929

Box containing red lump of a shiny substance, labelled 'gum boage'

James Watt's Garret Workshop

1790-1819

polarized 'guillotine' relay, 1862-1866

Telecommunications

1862-1866

Experimental microphone, 1878-1890

Telecommunications

1878-1890

section of first telegraph cable, 1837

Telecommunications

1837

Wax portrait of Benjamin Lewis Vulliamy (1780 – 1854)

Clockmakers

1851

Original wheel or steel-disc coherer, 1902

Radio Communication

1902

Wheatstone ABC telegraph receiver, 1942

Telecommunications

1842

Brake van, London & South Western Railway

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1894

Statue of St Cosmas, France, 1801-1900

Classical & Medieval Medicine

1801-1900

Henley needle galvanometer, 1855-1860

Telecommunications

1855-1860

Mobile telephone call box used in Cameroon, 2008-2012

Telecommunications

2008-2012

Hand perforator and copy stand for Wheatstone automatic telegraph system, 1890-1910

Telecommunications

1890-1910

Clockwork interruptor, once owned by David Hughes, 1875-1880

Radio Communication

1875-1880

Portable double-needle telegraph and test set, 1850

Telecommunications

1850

Silver thimble, used to pass a current through the 1866 Transatlantic cable, 1860-1866

Telecommunications

1860-1866

Morse sounder, 1835-1910

Telecommunications

1835-1910

Standard morse key, 1880-1950

Telecommunications

1880-1950

Wall telephone with Blake transmitter, 1880-1900

Telecommunications

1880-1900

Wooden box containing bust of James Watt

James Watt's Garret Workshop

1790-1819

Three small screwdrivers in wooden handles

James Watt's Garret Workshop

1790-1819

One iron roller, handle one end

James Watt's Garret Workshop

1790-1819

Model of the ‘Optimus’ water closet, England

Domestic Appliances

1870

Time Travellers invitation

Stephen Hawking Office

2013

Steljes ABC type printing telegraph receiver No. 477

Telecommunications

1895-1910

Refracting telescope with achromatic lens, made by the Dollond family

Optics

1760-1775