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Astronomical and navigational instruments

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2. Astronomy in the lecture theatre

3. Astronomy demonstrated: instruments and models

4. Astronomy and print

Astrolabes and quadrants

Barometers

Celestial navigation

Charting instruments

Compasses

Course, speed and distance indicators

Depth sounding

Electronic navigation

Exploring the Arctic

Franklin relics

Globes

Globes and globe gores

Herschel family

Meteorological instruments

Optical equipment

Ordnance

Popular Astronomy

Prints, drawings and watercolours

Recent acquisitions

Sundials

Telescopes

Telescopes at the Royal Observatory Greenwich

Telescopes Online Gallery

The astronomical telescope

The Herschels as artists

The Herschels as collectors

The Herschels as experimenters

The Herschels as instrument makers

The many faces of the telescope

Charts and maps

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3. Astronomy demonstrated: instruments and models

Baker collection

Close collection

De Gomme collection

Des Barres collection

Duckworth collection

Duff collection

Ericsson collection

Globes

Globes and globe gores

Goodsall collection

Green Blackwall collection - charts

Grenville collection

Henry Newton Stevens Atlantic Neptune collection

Hopton Hall collection

Lockyer collection

Loose maps and charts: general collection

Maps

Michael Graham-Stewart collection

Moriarty collection

Northey collection

Penrose collection

Pirelli collection

Popular Astronomy

Portolans and loose charts on vellum

Printed atlases

STC collection

Stokes collection

Westlake collection

Fine art

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1. Astronomy for all

2. Astronomy in the lecture theatre

4. Astronomy and print

After the War. Hong Kong and the Treaty Ports

A Matter of Life and Death

An iconic device

A Sea of Symbols

Captain George Pechell Mends (circa 1814 – 1871)

Caricatures

China before the Opium Wars with a specific focus on Canton

Dutch ships

English shipping

English ships

Exploring the Arctic

Foreign Shores

Green Blackwall collection

Herschel family

Historical

Lieutenant Gabriel Bray (1750–1823)

Maritime Art Greenwich

Michael Graham-Stewart collection

Miniatures

Miscellaneous

Nature and National Waters

Nicholas Pocock

Oil paintings

Opium Wars

Patronage, Battles and the Exotic

Popular Astronomy

Prints, drawings and watercolours

Recent acquisitions

Routes and Resources

Sailing warships

Sketchbooks and albums

Studies of ships and vessels

Telescopes at the Royal Observatory Greenwich

Telescopes Online Gallery

The astronomical telescope

The Herschels as artists

The Herschels as collectors

The Opium Wars

The Rise of the Seascape

The telescope’s satirical side

Van de Velde drawings

What is the North-West Passage?

Polar Equipment and Relics

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A Matter of Life and Death

Charting instruments

Compasses

Exploring the Arctic

Franklin relics

North America

Optical equipment

Routes and Resources

Relics

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A Matter of Life and Death

Charting instruments

Compasses

Exploring the Arctic

Franklin relics

Green Blackwall collection

Michael Graham-Stewart collection

North America

Optical equipment

Plate

Routes and Resources

Weapons

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Edged weapons

Exploring the Arctic

Firearms

Green Blackwall collection

Optical equipment

Ordnance

Recent acquisitions

Routes and Resources

Telescopes Online Gallery

The many faces of the telescope

Type

2 large lenses from RGO

2-prism Astronomical Spectroscope

2-prism Laboratory Spectroscope

4-prism Astronomical Spectroscope

6" spherical mirror with 2" hole

12" mirror

13" pyrex mirror

30 inch mirror or blank

30" mirror or blank

A. Mirror

A. Telescope

Achromatic telescope

Adjusting screw

A Flamsteed House model

Aircraft sextant

Air sextant

Airy's Water Telescope

Altazimuth Eyepiece

Altazimuth instrument model

Altitude dial

Ammeter

Analemmatic dial

Anemometer

Anenometer

armament accessory: sight, telescope

Armillary and polyhedral dial

Armillary dial

Armillary equinoctial dial

Armillary equinoctial pedestal dial

Armillary planetarium

Armillary sphere

Armillary Sphere

Armillary sphere case

Armillary sphere stand

Artficial Horizon

Artficial Mercurial Horizon

Artificial Glass Horizon

Artificial glass horizon

Artificial Gyroscopic Horizon

Artificial horizon

Artificial Horizon

Artificial horizon tray

Artificial Mercurial Horizon

Artificial mercurial horizon

Artificial Pendulum Horizon

Astrolabe

Astrological compass

Astronomical compendium

Astronomical compendium dial

Astronomical instrument

astronomical t&e: altazimuth

astronomical t&e: astrolabe

astronomical t&e: astrolabe(European)

astronomical t&e: astrolabe(Flemish)

astronomical t&e: astrolabe(Indo-Persian)

astronomical t&e: astrolabe(Maghribi)

astronomical t&e: astrolabe(Persian)

astronomical t&e: astrolabe(western)

astronomical t&e: astronomical instrument

astronomical t&e: disc

astronomical t&e: orrery

astronomical t&e: photoheliograph

astronomical t&e: planetarium

astronomical t&e: planetarium: orrery

astronomical t&e: planetarium: orrery(part)

astronomical t&e: planisphere

astronomical t&e: polisher

astronomical t&e: polishing machine

astronomical t&e: prism

astronomical t&e: sphere, armillary

astronomical t&e: telescope

astronomical t&e: telescope (20ft)

astronomical t&e: telescope (30 in)

astronomical t&e: telescope(astronomical reflector)

astronomical t&e: telescope(astronomical refracting)

astronomical t&e: telescope(astronomic reflector)

astronomical t&e: telescope(refracting)

astronomical t&e: telescope(refractor)

astronomical t&e: telescope, achromatic

astronomical t&e: telescope, achromatic(triple achromatic)

astronomical t&e: telescope, achromatic spy glass

astronomical t&e: telescope, achromatic walking stick

astronomical t&e: telescope, gregorian: telescope, astronomical reflector(pocket astronomical reflector)

astronomical t&e: telescope, gunlayer's: telescope, achromatic ?

astronomical t&e: telescope, pocket: telescope, achromatic

astronomical t&e: telescope, refracting

astronomical t&e: telescope, refracting: telescope, achromatic

astronomical t&e: telescope component: control, telescope

astronomical t&e: telescope component: electrical equipment

astronomical t&e: telescope component: eyepiece

astronomical t&e: telescope component: eyepiece, micrometer

astronomical t&e: telescope component: mirror

astronomical t&e: telescope component: mirror(Gregorian)

astronomical t&e: telescope component: mirror, elliptical plane

astronomical t&e: telescope component: mirror, speculum metal

astronomical t&e: telescope component: mount, eyepiece

astronomical t&e: telescope component: polishing frame, mirror

A Telescope

Augsburg dial

Azimuth compass

Backstaff

Bar magnet

Bar magnets

Barometer

Binnacle and liquid compass

Binoculars

Box Sextant

Box sextant

Bubble Sextant

building: observatory

Butterfield dial

Cabinet

Calendar

Calendar medal

Cannon dial

Celestial globe

Chronograph sheet

Clockwork globe

Coelostat

Collapsible globe

Compass

compass

Compass, gyro

Compass dial

component, telescope

container: box, specimen

Control for telescope

Course indicator

Creagh-Osborne protractor

Crescent dial

Cross-staff

Cylinder dial

data processing t&e: computing instrument: indicator, station speed & distance

data processing t&e: magnetograph component: recording apparatus

Day or night telescope

Decca receiver

Diagram

Dieppe magnetic azimuth dial

Dip circle

Dipleidoscope

Dip sector

Diptych dial

Disc

Dividers

documentary artifact: diagram

documentary artifact: globe, celestial

documentary artifact: globe, celestial(Islamic)

documentary artifact: globe, celestial: globe, clockwork

documentary artifact: globe, celestial: globe, hand

documentary artifact: globe, celestial: globe, star

documentary artifact: globe, skeleton: globe, navigational instruction

documentary artifact: globe, terrestrial

documentary artifact: globe, terrestrial(collapsible)

documentary artifact: globe, terrestrial(reproduction)

documentary artifact: globe, terrestrial: globe, clockwork

documentary artifact: globe, terrestrial: globe, collapsible

documentary artifact: globe, terrestrial: globe, hand

documentary artifact: globe, terrestrial: globe, pocket

documentary artifact: globe, terrestrial: globe, umbrella(collapsible)

documentary artifact: lantern slide

documentary artifact: model, astrolabe

documentary artifact: model, nocturnal

documentary artifact: model, quadrant

documentary artifact: model, telescope

documentary artifact: model, transit circle telescope

documentary artifact: model, transit instrument

documentary artifact: photonegative

documentary artifact: photoprint

documentary artifact: phototransparency

documentary artifact: plaque

documentary artifact: print

documentary artifact: stereograph

documentary artifact: telescope component: plate, photographic

double sextant

Double Sounding Quintant

drafting t&e: dividers

drafting t&e: dividers, proportional

drafting t&e: rule, parallel

drafting t&e: sector, equatorial

drafting t&e: sector, Zenith

drafting t&e: station pointer

Dry card compass

Echo sounder

electrical & magnetic t&e: dip circle component

electrical & magnetic t&e: magnet

electrical & magnetic t&e: magnet, bar

electrical & magnetic t&e: magnetograph component: motor

electrical & magnetic t&e: magnetometer

electrical & magnetic t&e: magnetometer component: magnet

electrical & magnetic t&e: variometer

elescope

Equinoctial dial

Eyepiece

Eyepiece and mount

Eyepiece micrometer

Eyepiece mount

Eyepiece mounts

Eyepieces

Facsimile globe

Flea-glass telescope

Floor globe

Galilean telescope

Geomancer's compass

Geomantic compass

Global Positioning System

Global Positioning System (GPS) receiver

Gore plate

Gregorian primary mirror

Gregorian secondary mirror

Gregorian telescope

Gun-sighting telescope

Gunner's quadrant

Gun sighting telescope

Gunter's scales

Gunter scale

Gyrocompass

Gyro Compass

Gyroscopic Sextant

Hand-held telescope

Hand globe

Horary quadrant

Horary quadrant with Gunter projection

Horizon, artificial

Horizontal dial

Horizontal pedestal dial

Horizontal sun and moon pedestal dial

Hour-glass

Illuminated globe

Inclining dial

Inflatable globe

Instruction globe

Instrument for Measuring the Dip of the Horizon

Islamic globe

Islamic quadrant

Lantern slide

Lantern slides

Lead line

Lens

Level

Level, transit

Liquid compass

Liquid compass and binnacle

Lodestone

Lodestone and keeper

Log glass

Look-out telescope

Lookout telescope

Magnet

Magnetic azimuth dial

Magnetic dial

Magnetograph

Magnetograph recording apparatus

Magnetometer

Mariner's Astrolabe

Mariner's astrolabe

Mariner's compass

Mariner's quadrant

Mechanical equinoctial dial

Mechanical log

Mechanical log recorder

Meteorite

meteorological t&e: barometer

meteorological t&e: barometer, aneroid

meteorological t&e: barometer, mercury: barometer, cistern(marine)

meteorological t&e: barometer, mercury: barometer, stick(marine barometer, cistern)

meteorological t&e: sunshine recorder

meteorological t&e: thermometer

meteorological t&e: thermometer component: case

meteorological t&e: thermostat

Micrometer

Microscope

Miniature globe

Mirror

Mirror grinding and polishing apparatus

Model

Model astrolabe

Model of a transit instrument

Model quadrant

Model telescope

Motor

Naval telescope

Navigational globe

Newtonian primary mirror

Newtonian secondary mirror

Night telescope

Nocturnal

Nocturnal model

Non-achromatic telescope

Notebook

Octant

Octant with Artificial Horizon

Officer of the Watch telescope

optical t&e: binoculars

optical t&e: binoculars, galilean

optical t&e: binoculars, prismatic

optical t&e: eyepiece, telescope

optical t&e: lens, astronomical

optical t&e: microscope

optical t&e: spectroscope

optical t&e: telescope

optical t&e: telescope(non-achromatic)

optical t&e: telescope, pocket(non-achromatic)

optical t&e: telescope, spy glass(non-achromatic)

optical t&e: telescope component: lens

Orrery

Paget angle sextant

Parallel rule

Perpetual calendar

personal gear: box, tobacco

personal gear: snuff box

personal symbol: coat of arms

personal symbol: coat of arms, royal

Photograph

Photographic plate

photographic t&e: plate holder, photographic

Photoheliograph

Photonegative

Photopositive

Photoprint

Phototransparency

Planetarium

Planisphere

plate, transit

plate holder, photographic

Pocket globe

Pocket sextant

Pocket telescope

Polishing frame

Polygonal telescope

Polyhedral dial

Portable telescope

Postage stamps

Presentation telescope

Prism

Prismatic binoculars

Protractor

Quadrant

Quintant

quintant

Radar display unit

Radar plotter

Radio direction finder

Rangefinder

Rangefinder telescope

Recording apparatus

Reflecting Circle

Reflecting circle

Regiomontanus dial

Repeating circle

Ring dial

Scaphe dial

Sextant

sextant

Sextant Stand

Sextant with Artificial Horizon

Sextant with artificial horizon

Sight ?

Slit with glass lens?

Snuff box

SOLD Bubble Sextant

Sounding lead and line

Sounding Quintant

Sounding quintant

Spectroscope

Spyglass telescope

Spy glass telescope

Standard distance piece, variometer

Star plotter

Station, speed and course indicator

Station, speed and distance indicator

Station pointer

Station speed & distance indicator

Stereograph

String-gnomon dial

Sundial

Sunshine recorder

surveying & navigational t&e: artificial horizon

surveying & navigational t&e: astrolabe, mariner's

surveying & navigational t&e: backstaff

surveying & navigational t&e: circle, reflecting

surveying & navigational t&e: compass

surveying & navigational t&e: compass, asiatic: compass, astrological

surveying & navigational t&e: compass, asiatic: compass, astrological(geomancer's)

surveying & navigational t&e: compass, asiatic: compass, geomancer's

surveying & navigational t&e: compass, asiatic: compass, mariner's

surveying & navigational t&e: compass, azimuth: compass, dry card

surveying & navigational t&e: compass, Geomancer's

surveying & navigational t&e: compass, liquid

surveying & navigational t&e: compass, mariner's

surveying & navigational t&e: compass, mariner's: compass, dry card

surveying & navigational t&e: depth sounding equipment: line, lead

surveying & navigational t&e: depth sounding equipment: machine, sounding

surveying & navigational t&e: dip, horizon equipment

surveying & navigational t&e: instruments, scientific

surveying & navigational t&e: lodestone

surveying & navigational t&e: log, estimator

surveying & navigational t&e: log, mechanical

surveying & navigational t&e: octant

surveying & navigational t&e: octant(with artificial horizon)

surveying & navigational t&e: plate, transit

surveying & navigational t&e: plotting instrument: plotter, radar

surveying & navigational t&e: quadrant

surveying & navigational t&e: quadrant, horary

surveying & navigational t&e: rangefinder(stadiometer)

surveying & navigational t&e: scales, gunter's

surveying & navigational t&e: sextant

surveying & navigational t&e: sextant, box

surveying & navigational t&e: sextant, bubble

surveying & navigational t&e: sextant, double

surveying & navigational t&e: sextant, gyro

surveying & navigational t&e: sextant, paget angle

surveying & navigational t&e: sextant, sounding: sextant, double

surveying & navigational t&e: sextant: quintant

surveying & navigational t&e: stand, sextant

surveying & navigational t&e: sundial & compass, pocket

surveying & navigational t&e: telescope

surveying & navigational t&e: telescope, pocket

surveying & navigational t&e: telescope, testing(for viewing device)

surveying & navigational t&e: telescope, transit instrument

surveying & navigational t&e: telescope: quadrant, mural

surveying & navigational t&e: telescope: transit, portable

surveying & navigational t&e: telescope: transit, reversible

surveying & navigational t&e: traverse board

Surveyor's Sextant

Table globe

Telescope

telescope

Telescope draw tube

Telescope eyepiece

Telescope lens

Telescope part

Telescope stand

Telescope tube

Tellurium

Terrestrial globe

Testing telescope

Thermometer

Thermometer case

Thermometers

Thermostat

timekeeping t&e: calendar

timekeeping t&e: calendar, perpetual

timekeeping t&e: chronograph

timekeeping t&e: chronograph component: chronograph sheet

timekeeping t&e: dial

timekeeping t&e: dial(compass)

timekeeping t&e: dial(mechanical)

timekeeping t&e: dial(spherical)

timekeeping t&e: dial, astronomical compendium

timekeeping t&e: dial, fixed: dial, horizontal

timekeeping t&e: dial, fixed: time gun

timekeeping t&e: dial, portable: dial, analemmatic

timekeeping t&e: dial, portable: dial, astronomical ring

timekeeping t&e: dial, portable: dial, Augsburg

timekeeping t&e: dial, portable: dial, Butterfield

timekeeping t&e: dial, portable: dial, crescent

timekeeping t&e: dial, portable: dial, diptych

timekeeping t&e: dial, portable: dial, diptych(diptych)

timekeeping t&e: dial, portable: dial, equinoctial

timekeeping t&e: dial, portable: dial, horizontal

timekeeping t&e: dial, portable: dial, inclining

timekeeping t&e: dial, portable: dial, magnetic

timekeeping t&e: dial, portable: dial, magnetic azimuth

timekeeping t&e: dial, portable: dial, mechanical equinoctial

timekeeping t&e: dial, portable: dial, pillar

timekeeping t&e: dial, portable: dial, polyhedral

timekeeping t&e: dial, portable: dial, ring

timekeeping t&e: dial, portable: dial, scaphe

timekeeping t&e: dial, portable: dial, string gnomon

timekeeping t&e: dial, portable: dial, universal equinoctial

timekeeping t&e: dial, portable: dial, universal equinoctial ring

timekeeping t&e: dial, portable: dial, vertical

timekeeping t&e: dial, portable: dipleidoscope

timekeeping t&e: hour-glass

timekeeping t&e: hour-glass(15 minute)

timekeeping t&e: hour-glass(30 minute)

timekeeping t&e: hour-glass(60 minute)

timekeeping t&e: nocturlabe

timekeeping t&e: nocturnal

Tobacco box

Traverse board

Universal equinoctial armillary dial

Universal equinoctial dial

Universal equinoctial ring dial

Universal equinoctial scaphe dial

Variometer

Vertical disc dial

visual communication t&e: code, signal

Walking stick telescope

water transport: exploration/research vessel (HMS)

water transport: fighting vessel: 2nd rate (HMS)

water transport: fighting vessel: 3rd rate (HMS)

water transport: fighting vessel: 4th rate (HMS)

water transport: fighting vessel: 60 gun ship (HMS)

water transport: fighting vessel: aircraft carrier (HMS)

water transport: fighting vessel: battleship (HMS)

water transport: sailing vessel: schooner

water transport: steam vessel: yacht

water transport: training vessel (HMS)

Materials

acrylic

alloy

alloy, glass, Bakelite / Phenol Formaldehyde (PF)

alloy?

aluminium

aluminium?

amber

anodised brass

anodized brass

asbestos

baize

Bakelite / Phenol Formaldehyde (PF)

bakelite/Tufnol

balleen

beech

bell metal

black ivory

black metal, glass

black paint

blued-steel

bone

box

box: wood covered with black shark skin and lined with magenta silk

boxwood

brass

Brass

brass & glass

brass, enamel

brass, glass

brass, glass, ?silver plate

brass, glass, card, iron

brass, glass, leather, silver

brass, grenadilla wood,

brass, leather

brass, silver, paper, glass

brass, wood

brass, wood, paper, ivory

brass gilt

brass with silver-plate

brick

bronze

bronze dust

bronze gilt

calfskin

canvas

card

cardboard

card laminate

cast iron

cast silver

cast silver alloy

celluloid

cellulose nitrate

cellulose nitrate lacquer

cloth

colour lithography

colour wash

compressed card

compressed cardboard

compressed printed cardboard

copper

copper-engraved

copper-plate engraved

copper alloy

copper or brass

copper plate

copper plated with brass

copper plate engraved

copus wood

cord

cotton

ebony

electrical wiring

electric wire

Electric wiring

electrified

electroformed

electronics

elephant ivory (CITES)

embossed paper

enamel

enamelled brass

enamel paint

engraved

engraving

fabric

facsimile

felt

fish skin

galvanised steel

gilded-leather

gilt

gilt-brass

gilt-copper

gilt brass

gilt copper

gilt copper alloy

gilt metal

gilt paint, water

glass

glass & metal, brass frame, wooden holder

glass & metal, wooden box, paper label

glass, leather, mercury, velvet, brass

glass, metal

Glass, metal, leather(?), wood lens cap, wooden box

glass, paper

glass, silver, wooden box

glass, wooden box

glass.

gold

hand-coloured

hand-coloured lithography

hand-painted

hardwood

horn

ink

inorganic: glass

inorganic: plastic, glass

inscribed

iron

iron alloy

ivory

ivory (CITES)

ivory (CITES), lignum vitae

japanned paperboard

Key ivory (CITES)

labernum

lacquer

lacquered boxwood

laminated card

laquer

lead

lead (?)

leather

leather (case)

leather, brass, glass

light wood

lignum vitae

limestone

lime wood

linen

liquid

liquid in level

lodestone

magnet

Magnetic ore

magnetite

magnetite, silver

mahogany

Mahogany (CITES)

mahogany handle, lignum vitae

mahogany veneer

manuscript

marble

mercury

metal

Metal

metal: alloy

metal: alloy, aluminium

metal: aluminium

metal: brass

metal: brass, anodised

metal: brass, wood, papier mache

metal: brass: Brazillian rosewood - Dalbergia nigra (CITES)

metal: bronze

metal: bronze ?

metal: cast iron

metal: chrome

metal: copper

metal: gold

metal: gunmetal with brass fittings

metal: iron

metal: lodestone

metal: magnetite rock

metal: silver

metal: silver:

metal: silver ?

metal: speculum

metal: steel

metal: tin

metal: wire, tungsten

metal alloy

mica

mount: wood

nickel

nickel-silver

nickel alloy

nylon thread ?

oak

oiled cloth

oil paint

organic: bone

organic: card

organic: cardboard

organic: ivory

organic: leather

organic: paper

organic: paper, tissue

organic: silk

organic: wood: boxwood

organic: wood: lignum vitae

oxidised brass

padouk wood

paint

painted

painted canvas

pape

paper

papier

papier mache

papier mâché

parchment

pasteboard

pearls

pearwood

perforated

perspex

pewter

pewter-brass alloy

pigskin

pine

pine wood

plaster

plastic

Plastic

plastic, aluminium, rubber

plastic;

plastic?

platinum

porcelain

portland stone

possibly eggshell

printed cardboard

printed colour lithography

printed cotton

printed lithography

printed paper

printed plastic

printed silk

probably hair

punched

raykskin (shagreen)

rayskin

rayskin (shagreen)

red brass

rivet

rope

rubber

rubber sealing

sand

selenite

shagreen

sharkskin

shark skin

sharkskin (shagreen)

silk

silk cord

silk thread

silver

Silver

silver & glass, wooden box

silver?

silvered-brass

silvered brass

silver plate

slate

specula

speculum

speculum (metal)

speculum metal

speculum metal???

sreing

stamped

steel

Steel

steel pin?

steel plate engraved

stipple plate engraved

stone

string

synthetic

synthetic: glass

synthetic: ivorine

synthetic: perspex

synthetic: plastic

synthetic materials

synthetic resin

textile

Textile

textile tread

thread

tin

tin?

tooled

tortoiseshell

Tortoiseshell (CITES)

varnish

varnished boxwood

vellum

velvet

walnut

wax

whipcord

white metal

white metal- aluminium?

wick

wire

wood

wood (box)

wood (painted black)

wood, brass, aluminium, glass, leather

wood, brass, glass, steel

wood, leather

wood, metal spike

wood: boxwood

wood: boxwood ?

wood: ebony

Wood: fruit

wood: hornbeam

wood: lignum vitae

wood: mahogany

wood: mahogany ?

wood: pearwood

wood or metal

wool

yellow brass

Display Location

Display - Atlantic Gallery

Display - Bridge Gallery

Display - Forgotten Fighters

Display - Maritime London Gallery

Display - Pacific Encounters Gallery

Display - Polar Worlds Gallery

Display - QH

Display - ROG

Display - Sea Things Gallery

Display - Traders Gallery

Display - Tudor and Stuart Seafarers Gallery

Display - Voyagers

Not on display

Creator

'Ali, Hajji

'Isa, Muhammad Muqim ibn Mulla

A.G., Emil Busch

Abel, Carl

Abraham, Jacob

Ackermann, Rudolph

Adam Hilger Ltd

Adams

Adams, Dudley

Adams, George

Addison, John

Adie & Son

Adie, Alexander James

Admiralty Research Establishment

after Spirinx

Ahmad, Rif 'al abu

Airy, George Biddell

al-Battuti, Muhammad ibn Ahmad

al-Jilani, Yusuf ibn Hajji

al-Yazdi, Muhammad Mahdi

Alexander, Alexander

Alex R Wright & Co

Allah, Hasan 'Abd

Allen, Elias

Allen, H. R.

Ancient Monuments Laboratory

Angxiao, He

Anich, Peter

Anonymous

Anonymous (after Moll)

Anonymous (English)

Anstalt von Ernst Schott & Company

Antiques of Science & Technology

A O S

Armand, Jacques Etienne

Army & Navy Co-operative Society Ltd

Arnold, Thomas

Arscenius, Ferdinand

Arsenius, Gualterus

Aspheris, Petrus

Aspin, Jehoshaphat

Asselinne, David

Aston & Mander Ltd.

Atkinson

Ayscough, James

Baharie, A.

Bale

Banks

Baradelle, Nicolas-Alexandre

Baradelle, Nicolas-Eloi

Bardin

Bardin, Thomas Marriott

Bardin, William

Barr & Stroud Ltd

Barrett, Robert Montague

Bassnett, James

Bate, Robert

Bate, Robert Brettell

Bauer, Johann Bernard

B Du Viv

Bedford, Hilkiah

Behaim, Martin

Bellinger, John

Beme Electronic and Marine Equipments Ltd

Bergauer, Michael

Berge, Matthew

Beringer, David

Berry, William

Bert, Paul

Betts, John

Bianchetti, Isidore

Bildt, Jan (Pytters) van der

Bion, Nicolas

Bird, John

Blaeu, Willem Jansz

Blaikie, W.B.

Blakeney, Cameron

Blakey, G. H.

Blondeau, Roch

Bloud, Charles

Bloxam, Richard Rouse

Bonnevie, Claude

Bos, Joannes

Bradford, Edward Eden

Bradford, George

British Museum

Broadhurst Clarkson & Co

Brookes & Gatehouse

Browne, John

Browning, John

Burgh, Henry

Burnham & Co

Buschmann, Johannes

Butterfield, Michael

C. P. Goerz

Cail, John

Cail, Septimus Anthony

Callaghan, W.

Cambridge & Paul Instrument Co

Cambridge Instrument Co

Cambridge Instrument Co. Ltd.

Cambridge Scientific Instrument Co

Campbell, J. F.

Captain Cook Birthplace Museum

Captain Robinson

Cary

Cary & Co.

Cary, John

Cary, William

Cary and Porter

Cary Porter Ltd

Casella

Casella, Louis

Cassini, Giovanni Maria

Cattin, Jean Baptiste

Cauchoix, Robert -Aglae

CBS, Beck Kassel

Cella, Philipp

Central Research Institute

Cetti, C

Ceulen, Jan Jansz van

Chance Brothers Ltd

Chapotot

Charles Smith & Son

Chatfield, John

Chesnon, Salomon

Chevalier

Chevalier, Victor

Choizy, Jean

Christian Mur & Johann Sterr

Clark, Josiah Latimer

Clark, T

Claude Delure

Cock, Christopher

Colby, Hall

Cole, Benjamin

Cole, Humfrey

Cole, Thomas

Collet, Timothe

Colom, Jacob Aertsz

Constantine Pickering & Co

Cook

Cooke, Thomas

Coombes

Coombes, J.

Cooper, R

Corneliszoon, Jan

Coronelli, Vincenzo

Costa, Antonius

Cotsworth, Moses

Cousins

Coutureau, Henri

Cox

Cox, William Charles

Crawford, Tyson

Cremstorff

Crichton

Crow, Thomas

Cuff, John

Culpeper, Edmund

Cunigham, Jacob

Cushee, after Richard

Cushee, Richard

Cutts, Sutton & Son

Dahong, Jiang

Daish, R. E.

Dallmeyer

Dallmeyer, J. H.

Daniel, Christopher St John Hume

Danielis, Bernardi

Danqi, Wu

Danti, Egnatio

Davidson, Alexander

Davies, James

Davis, Gabriel

Day-Lewis

Deane, William

Decca

De Foy, Ligne

Delamarche, Charles-Francois

De La Rue, Elias

Delisle, Guillaume

Delure, Jean Baptiste Nicolas

Demichel, A.

Dennis, J C

Dennis, John Charles

Denoyer-Geppert

Dent, Edward John

Descrolières, Adrian

Desfontaines

Desnos, Louis Charles

Dixey, Charles Wastell

Dixey, George

Dobbie McInnes & Clyde Ltd

Dolberg, Adolf

Dollond & Aitchison

Dollond, John

Dollond, Peter

Doppelmayr, Johann Gabriel

Dover, John

Downie, Thomas

Dring & Fage

Dubois, Charles Adrien

Ducher, Hans

Ducher, Thomas

Dunn, G.

Duren, Henry

E. & E. Emanuel

Eade, Jonathan

East Berks Boat Co

Ebsworth, Richard

Eder, Tobias

Edgardo Ricci

Edgeworth, Henry

Edward Arnold

Edward John Dent & Co.

Edward Kahler, E

Egan Co

Eimmart, Georg Christoph

Einson-Freeman Co

Ekling, Joh M.

Electro Methods Ltd

Electron Utilisation Ltd

Elliott Bros

Elmes, William

Elton, John

EMI Electron Tubes

Emslie, John

England, B.

Engleheart, John Cox Dillman

Ernst Leitz

Ernst Schotte & Co

Ertel & Sohn

F., I.

F., J.

Fairey

Fairey, Joseph

Falconi

Farina, Vincenzo

Fastre aine

Felli, Marcello

Ferguson, James

Ferreri, Joannes Paolo

Ferrier, Antoine

Feuille, Jacques de La

Fleuriais, Georges Ernest

Fortin, Jean

Foster, Daniel

Foster, W.

Fowler, John

Francis Barker & Son Ltd

Fraser & Son

Fraser, William

Frisius, Gemma

Frith, Peter

Frodsham & Keen

Frost, J.

G. Felsenthal & Sons

Galli, I.

Gallucci, Paolo

Gallucio, Joanne Paulo

Gardner, John

Garmin International

Garner, Will

Gautrau

Gemini, Thomas

Georama Ltd

George, Etienne François

George Lee & Son

George Philip & Son Ltd

Gerhard

Gerrard, William

Ghetaldi, Marino

Giamin, Antonius

Gieves & Hawkes Ltd

Gilbert & Sons

Gilbert, John

Gilkerson and Co

Gill, David

Glenn Ellen Scientific Company

Glynne, Richard

Goater, Robert

Gosnell, Samuel

Gosselin

Gouchon, Charles

Graf, Hans

Graham, George

Grant & Griffith

Grassl, Lorenz

Gregory & Wright

Gregory, H.

Gregory, Henry

Greuter, Matthaeus

Grubb, Howard

Grubb, Thomas

Grubb-Parsons

Guadagni, P. C.

Guymard, P. I.

H. & F. Muller

Habermel, Erasmus

Haecke, H

Haeoke, H

Hager, Wolfgang

Hall, J & E

Hall, Sidney

Hamel

Hammersley

Hardy, Jacques

Harris, John

Harris, William

Hartmann, Georg

Hatch, Charles

Haupois, Jean

Hauser, Mathias

Haye, Thomas

Hayes, Walter

Heath & Co. Ltd

Heath & Wing

Heath, Thomas

Heath, W.

Heather, William

Heidelberg School

Heiden, Ioannes Paulinus

Hennessy, Bernard Rudkin

Henry Barrow & Co

Henry Browne & Son

Henry Hughes & Son Limited

Herbert, Alan Patrick

Herschel, Caroline Lucretia

Herschel, John

Herschel, John Frederick William

Herschel, William

Heyde, G.

Heyden, Gaspard van der

Hicks, G. E.

Higginson, John

Hilger, A

Hill, Nathaniel

Hinde, John

Holm, P

Hondius, Jodocus

Hooke, Robert

Horne & Thornthwaite

Hua-Chi, Chou

Hube

Hudson & Son

Hudson, J

Hughes

Hughes, Henry

Hughes, James

Hughes, Joseph

Huguenin, H.

Hurlimann Ponthus & Therrode

Hurt, Joseph

II, Isaac Habrecht

Jansen

Janssen

Jecker

Ji, Huang Rui

Johann Alexander Herschel

John Grundy Ltd

Johnston, Alexander Keith

Johnston, William

Jones

Jones, Thomas

Jones, William

Karner, Leonhard Andreas

Kelvin & Hughes Ltd

Kelvin Bottomley & Baird Ltd

Kempson & Kindon

Kempson, Peter

Klinger, Johann Georg

Knittl, Franz Antoni

Langlois, Claude

Langren, Arnold Floris van

Langren, Jacob Floris van

Lassell, W

Lea, Philip

Lefevre

Longland, William

Luheng, Wu

Macquart

Malby & Co

Marke, John

Marshall, John

Martin, Benjamin

Martin, Johann

Mary Rose Trading Ltd

Massey, Edward

McClean, Frank

Mercator, Gerardus

Miller, Lienhart

Morden, Robert

Muller, Ludovicus Theodatus

Nairne & Blunt

Nairne, Edward

National Maritime Museum

Negretti & Zambra

Neon Luminous Tubes (Lundsigns) Ltd

Newman, John Frederick

Newton & Co.

Newton & Son

Newton Son & Berry

Nourry, Jean

Oterschaden, Joannes

Outhier, Abbe Reginald

Owens, Owen

Petrus Plancius, Petrus

Pistor & Martin

Pistor & Martins

Plath, C.

Pocock, George

Polanski, Bernard

Poppel, M. F.

Porter, Samuel

Potter, John Dennett

Powell, John

Price, Charles

Ramsden, Jesse

Ransomes & May

Ransomes & Sims

Reinman, Hieronymus

Renart, D

Renart, Dionis

Replogle Globes Inc

Richard

Robinson, Thomas Charles

Ross, Andrew

Ross, Thomas

Ross Ltd

Rowley, John

Rugendas, Nikolaus

S. G. Brown Ltd

S. Smith & Son

Saunders, Harold N.

Scan Globe

Schiavone, Eugene

Schissler, Senior, Christoph

Senex, John

Senex, Mary

Seutter, Matthaeus

Sevin, Pierre

Short, James

Sisson, Jeremiah

Sisson, Jonathan

Smith, Egerton

Spencer Browning & Rust

Stanford, Edward

Sterrop, George

Steward, J. H.

Stockert, Ernst Christophe

Sutton, Henry

T. Cooke and Sons Ltd

Taylor, Janet

Tench, Matthew Parker

Thomas Harris & Son

Thomas Jones & Son

Thomas Ripley & Son

Thomas Walker & Son Ltd

Thomson, William

Troughton

Troughton & Simms

Troughton, Edward

Tulley, Charles

Turner, T.

Tuttell, Thomas

Unknown

Valk, Gerard

Valk, Leonard

Veen, Adriaen

Vogler, Andreas

Vogler, Johann Georg

Voigtlander & Sohn

Vopel, Caspar

W. & S. Jones

W. F. Stanley & Co Ltd

W. Ottway & Co. Ltd

W. Watson & Sons

Wallis, John

Wangchang, Cao

Wang Yangxi

Watkins & Smith

Watson, J.S.

West

Whitall, Henry

Whitbread, G.

Whitbread, George

White, James

Whitwell, Charles

Willebrand, Johann Martin

Willebrand, Johann Matthias

William Harris & Co.

Worthington, Nathaniel

Wright, Gabriel

Wright, Thomas

Wu, Luheng

Xiu-Shui, Fang

Yang-Qi, Wang

Young, Douglas Johnson

Zeiss, Carl

Places

Abbeville

Amsterdam

Ascension Island

Augsburg

Australia

Austria

Barcelona

Barking

Bath

Bavaria, Germany

Bayeux, France

Berlin

Birmingham

Blois

Brentwood

Brest, France

Bristol

Broadstairs, Kent, England

Brunswick, Germany

California

Cambridge

Catalonia, Spain

Charing Cross

Charlton

Chicago

Chicago, Illanois, USA

Chicago, Illinois, USA

China

City of London

Clapham

Clay Hall near Windsor, completed in Slough.

Coleby, Lincolnshire, England

Continental Europe

Cork

Croydon

Damascus, Syria

Dartford, Kent, England

Denmark

Devonport

Dieppe

Dresden

Dublin

Duisburg

Ealing

Edenbridge, Kent, England

Edinburgh

Edingburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom

Ellingen, Germany

England

England, probably Norwich

England, United Kingdom

England or France

England or Sri Lanka

Essex, England

Exeter

Falmouth

Finland

Florence

Fohr, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany

France

France or Italy

Frankfurt, Germany

Freising

Geneva

Genoa

Germany

Germany (for an English company)

Germany or Netherlands

Germany or Scandinavia

Glasgow

Glasgow & Edinburgh, Scotland

Great Yarmouth

Greenwich

Greenwich Hospital

Guernsey, Channel Islands, UK

Hamburg

Heidelberg, Germany

Herstmonceux, Sussex

Herzog, Germany

Hispano-Moorish origin

Holborn

Holland

Honolulu

Huizhou Prefecture, Anhui Province, China

Hythe

Innsbruck

Innsbruck, Austria

Ipswich

Iran

Isfahan, Persia

Italy

Italy or England

Italy or Spain

Japan

Jena

Kansas City, Kansas, USA

Korea

Lahore

Leeds

Leith

Liege

Linz, Austria

Liverpool

London

Long Island City

Lothian, Edinburgh, Scotland

Louvain

Low Countries

Luxor, Egypt

Lymington, Hampshire, England

Lyons, France

Madrid

Marseilles

Middlesboro England; Cardiff, Wales

Milan

Minden, Germany

Morocco

Moscow, Russia

Munich

Naples

Netherlands

Netherlands ?

Neukölln, Germany

Newcastle upon Tyne

New Eltham

New York

Ningpo, China

Northern Africa

Norwich

Nuremberg

Oakland, California, USA

Observatory House, Slough, England

Oxford

Padua, Italy

Pakistan

Paris

Passau, Germany

Philadelphia

Pisa, Italy

Plymouth

Ports Down, Hampshire, England

Portsea Island

Portsmouth

possibly England

possibly France

possibly French

possibly Persia

possibly Spain

Prague

probably Denmark

probably England or Germany

probably France and Italy

probably France or Italy

probably French

probably Germany or France

probably Germany or Italy

probably Holland

Probably Indo Persian

probably Lyon, France

probably Northern Italy

probably Persia

probably Spain

probably Switzerland

Ragusa (Dubrovnik), Yugoslavia

Rathenow, Germany

Rochefort, France

Rome

Romsey, Hampshire, England; Taiwan

Rostock, Germany

Rotherhithe

Rotterdam

Rourkee

Ruislip

Russia

Russia, Soviet Union

San Francisco, California, USA

San Francisco County

Scandinavia

Sheffield

Sicily/Italy

Silvertown

Slough

Smethwick, West Midlands, England

Southampton

South German

Southsea

Soviet Union

Strasbourg

Sunderland

Swansea

Swansea, England

Swansea, Wales

Switzerland

Toronto, Canada

Trieste

Tsinan, China

Turkey

United Kingdom

Unknown

USA for sale in UK

Vauxhall

Venice

Vienna

Wales

Wapping

Wargrave, Berkshire, England

Washington

Wateringbury, Kent, England

Weimer, Germany

Wetzlar

Wetzlar, Germany

Wolfenbuttel, Germany

Wolffenbüttel, Germany

Wu County, Jiangsu Province, China

Wu County, Juangsu Province, China

Xihu Street, Guangzhou City, Guangdong Province, China

Xiuning

York

Zhangzhou, Fujian Province, China

Zhangzhou Prefecture, Fujian Province, China

Events

Anglo-Spanish War: Spanish Armada, 1588

Antarctic Exploration: British National Antarctic Expedition, 1901-1904

Arctic Exploration: Dr John Rae, 1853-1854

Arctic Exploration: Franklin's First Overland Expedition, 1819-1822

Arctic Exploration: Franklin's Last Expedition, 1845-1848

Arctic Exploration: Franklin Search Expedition, Anderson, 1855

Arctic Exploration: Franklin Search Expedition, Austin, 1850-1851

Arctic Exploration: Franklin Search Expedition, McClintock, 1857-1859

Arctic Exploration: Franklin Search Expedition, Schwatka, 1878-1880

Arctic Exploration: North Pole expedition, Nares, 1875-1876

Boxer Rebellion, 1900

Carte du Ciel & the Astrographic Catalogue project, 1887-1958

Discovery of radiant heat, 1800

Discovery of Uranus, 1781

Eclipse of the Sun, 1912

Egypt War: Bombardment of Alexandria, 1882

Ellen MacArthur circumnavigation, 2004

French Revolutionary Wars: Battle of the Nile, 1798

Great Storm, 1703

Napoleonic Wars: Battle of Copenhagen, 1801

Napoleonic Wars: Battle of Trafalgar, 1805

Opening of Wilhelmshafen Port, 1869

Second Boer War, 1889-1902

Transit of Venus, 1769

Transit of Venus, 1874

Treaty of Tordesillas, 1494

World War I, 1914-1918

World War I: Battle of Jutland, 1916

World War I: Battle of the Falkland Islands, 1914

Vessels

Assistance (1835)

Aue fl.1914

Ayesha (1977)

Bellerophon (1786)

Bombay (1828)

Bounty (purchased 1787)

Britannia (1860)

Camperdown (1885)

Centurion (1892)

Condor (1876)

Deptford (1732)

Discovery (1873)

Discovery (1901)

Dorothea fl.1818

Fox (1855)

Fury (1814)

Galatea 1794 (possibly Galatea 1810) ?

Glory 1899

Goliath (1781)

Invincible (1907)

Lady of St Kilda fl.1837

Lion (1910)

Mars (1794)

Mary Rose (1509)

Minotaur (1863)

Nedjed fl.1883-99

Rainbow Warrior 1955

Royal George (1756)

Royalo fl.1940

Saturn (1786)

Scharnhorst fl.1914 (Sank at this Battle)

Sophia of London fl.1806

Stirling Castle 1679

Stirling Castle 1679 ?

St Louis fl.1708

Sultan (1870)

Sunbeam (1874)

Temeraire (1798)

Terrible (1895)

Tirpitz (1939)

Triumph (1944)

Vanguard (1835)

Victory (1765)

Warspite (1913)

Worcester (1843)

Exhibition

Exploration and Cultural Encounters

Nelson, Navy, Nation

North-West Passage

Royal River: Power, Pageantry and the Thames

Ships, Clocks & Stars: The Quest for Longitude

The Atlantic: Slavery, Trade, Empire

Time and Longitude

Traders: The East India Company and Asia

Unseen: The Lives of Looking by Dryden Goodwin

Voyagers

People

Acland, Thomas Dyke

Adams

Adams, Francis Norris

Admiral Douglas

Admiral Fleurias

Airy, George Biddell

Alexander Chaumont

Alvaro de Mendana

Apian, Peter

Atkinson, Horatio Nelson

Atkinson, Thomas (master HMS VICTORY)

Atkinson, William George

Aubert, Alexander

Austin, C J

Austin, James

Back, George

Baddeley, A. Margaret

Baldcock, Thomas

Balleny, John

Bardin

Barrow, John

Becher, Alexander Bridport

Behaim, Martin

Bellamy, George

Bellingshausen, Thaddeus Fabian von

Beresford, Charles William de la Poer

Berge, Matthew

Bernard, J.

Biscoe, John

Blackwood, Capt

Blaeu, Joan

Blair, H. C.

Bonaparte, Napoleon