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Astronomical and navigational instruments
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Astrolabes and quadrants
Celestial navigation
Charting instruments
Compasses
Course, speed and distance indicators
Electronic navigation
Globes and globe gores
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Barometer
Binoculars
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Course indicator
Course indicator - aircraft
data processing t&e: computing instrument: indicator, station speed & distance
documentary artifact: globe, terrestrial
Global Positioning System
Global Positioning System (GPS) receiver
meteorological t&e: barometer, aneroid
optic, ?peroscope
optical t&e: binoculars(right angle lens)
optical t&e: binoculars, galilean
optical t&e: binoculars, prismatic
personal gear: stick, walking
Prismatic binoculars
Radar display unit
Sextant
sextant
Sounding quintant
Station, speed and course indicator
Station, speed and distance indicator
Station speed & distance indicator
surveying & navigational t&e: course indicator, aircraft
surveying & navigational t&e: radar equipment, marine: radar, marine
surveying & navigational t&e: sextant
surveying & navigational t&e: sextant, sounding: sextant, double
Table globe
Trainer's telescope
Trainer's telescope Type CD53
Undress coat
Walking stick
water transport: fighting vessel: battleship
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aluminium
asbestos
brass
glass
horn
leather
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metal alloy
oak
organic: leather
paper
plastic
printed paper
shark vertebrae (possibly)
shell
synthetic materials
velvet
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Display - Bridge Gallery
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Barr & Stroud Ltd
C. P. Goerz
Decca
Dollond & Aitchison
Elliott Bros
George Philip & Son Ltd
Heath & Co. Ltd
Kelvin & Hughes Ltd
Lizars, J
Mechanism Ltd
Research Enterprises Limited
Simmonds-Goudime
Trimble Navigation
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Royal Naval uniform regulations 1774-87: Officers (undress)
Tirpitz (1939)
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Galpin, Miss
Royal United Service Institution
Tizard, Thomas Henry
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Binoculars
Course indicator - aircraft
Battenberg's Course Indicator Mark III (Station, speed and distance indicator)
Terrestrial table globe (Table globe)
Binoculars
Walking stick
Radar Mk. 1 Display Unit Type 155 (Radar display unit)
Royal Naval uniform: pattern 1774-87 (Undress coat)
Trainer's telescope Type CD53
Binoculars
Izar Prism Binocular (Binoculars)
GPS Surveyor 4000SX (Global Positioning System (GPS) receiver)
Mate sextant (Sextant)
Binoculars case
Sounding quintant
Precision aneroid barometer Type M1991 (Barometer)
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