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Astronomical regulators and precision clocks
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documentary artifact: model, escapement
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Marine chronometer winding key
medal
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Pocket chronometer.
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timekeeper: chronometer, marine
timekeeper: chronometer, marine(2 day)
timekeeper: chronometer, marine(8 day)
timekeeper: chronometer, pocket
timekeeper: chronometer movement, pocket
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Charles Frodsham
Dent, Edward John
Earnshaw, Thomas
Frodsham, Charles
Henry Hughes & Son Limited
Hume, John
John Arnold & Son
Kullberg, Victor
Lockwood, J W
Reid
Thomas Mercer Chronometers
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Arctic Exploration: Franklin Search Expedition, McClure, 1850-1854
Napoleonic Wars: Capture of the Admiral Jawl, 1808
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Admiral Yawl (1808)
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Ships, Clocks & Stars: The Quest for Longitude
The Moon
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Arthur Capell
Banbury, John
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Langford, Georgefl
Maskelyne, Nevil
McClure, Robert John Le Mesurier
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Nelson, Horatio
Pugh, Florence Isabelle
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1818 (chronometer movement, pocket)
630 (Pocket chronometer.)
Pocket chronometer movement (Pocket chronometer movement)
3597 (Marine chronometer)
1519 (Marine chronometer)
412 (Pocket chronometer)
891 (Pocket chronometer)
Model of Earnshaw's escapement (Escapement model)
462 (Pocket chronometer)
Fusee ratchet wheel washer
1065 (Marine chronometer)
Astronomical regulator
309 (Pocket Chronometer)
46168 (Marine chronometer)
2050 (Marine chronometer)
2050 (Marine chronometer; Winding key)
512 (Marine chronometer)
4070 (Marine chronometer)
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524 (Chronometer)
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