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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

Meteorological instruments

Optical equipment

Sundials

Telescopes

Type

Aircraft computer

Aircraft sextant

Air sextant

armament t&e, ammunition: shell(fragment)

Astronomical regulator

astronomical t&e: telescope, refracting

Azimuth circle box

Battery holder

Binnacle

Binnacle - army compass

Binoculars

Binoculars case

Boat's liquid compass

Boat's liquid compass and binnacle

Bubble Sextant

Builder's, Full hull model

Calculator, manual

data processing t&e: computing instrument, navigational: computer, aircraft

Direction finder, radio

Distance meter

documentary artifact: model, oar

documentary artifact: model, oar(pair)

Dwarf binnacle with compass

Echo sounder

Flying Twenty Class

Full-hull model

Full hull model

Full hull model; Rigged model

Gun tompion

Headphones

Instructional model

Integrator, used for oceanographic work

key, morse

lamp, angle poise

lifejacket

lighting device: tin, match(lifeboat)

Liquid compass

Liquid compass and binnacle

Machine, calculating

Machine, manual

Match tin

meter, electrical testing

Meter, marine distance

Model model

Model oar

Model oars

Monocular

Motor? holder

Mounting tube fittings

Mounting tube fittings?

NOT SIGHTED Transmitter

optical t&e: binoculars

optical t&e: binoculars, prismatic

optical t&e: binoculars, prismatic(battle ship type)

other structure: launching ways

Penstand

personal gear: goggles, snow

Pivot

Prismatic binoculars

Punkah louvre

Racing Keelboat

Racing Keelboat; Flying Twenty Class

Radio direction finder

Radio headphones

Rigged model

Safety razor

Sextant

Sextant, electric ?

shell, fragment

Shell case

Shell fragment

Slipway model

Snow goggles

Spirit measure

Structural model

Structural model; Slipway model

surveying & navigational t&e: binnacle, dwarf

surveying & navigational t&e: compass, liquid

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

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

surveying & navigational t&e: depth sounding equipment: sounder, echo(recording)

surveying & navigational t&e: meter, distance

surveying & navigational t&e: pivot

surveying & navigational t&e: telescope: transit circle, refracting

Switch

tampion

Telescope

Telescope miscellaneous parts

toilet article: razor, safety

toilet article: soap, tooth

tompion, gun

Tooth soap

Tooth soap case base

Tooth soap case lid

Transmitter

water transport: cargo/passenger vessel

water transport: fighting vessel: battlecruiser

water transport: fighting vessel: cruiser

water transport: fighting vessel: destroyer (Polish)

water transport: fighting vessel: destroyer, torpedo boat (HMS)

water transport: model, exhibition: block model(decked: equipped: rigged)

water transport: model, instructional(working)

water transport: passenger vessel: liner

water transport: service vessel: barge

water transport accessory: lamp, angle poise

water transport accessory: lifejacket

water transport accessory: louvre, punkah

water transport accessory: oar

weights & measures t&e: measure, spirit(1 1/2 gills)

weights & measures t&e: measure, spirit(1/2 gill)

written communication t&e: penstand

Materials

alloy

alloy, glass, Bakelite / Phenol Formaldehyde (PF)

aluminium

aluminium?

bakelit

Bakelite / Phenol Formaldehyde (PF)

brass

Canadian rock elm

canvas

cast iron

Cellulose acetate (CA)

coating: paint

coating: varnish

copper

copper wire

electrical components

electrical wire

electric wire

felt

glass

Honduras mahogany

inorganic: plastic

iron

lead

leather

liquid

magnet?

magnets

mahogany

Melamine formaldehyde (MF)

metal

metal: alloy

metal: aluminium

metal: brass

metal: chromium

metal: iron

metal: steel

mica

Natural rubber (NR)

organic: canvas

organic: cotton

organic: wool

other plastic

paint

plastic

Polyamide (PA)

Polyethylene (PE)

Polystyrene (PS)

Polyurethane (PUR)

Polyvinyl chloride (PVC)

rubber

sponge

steel

synthetic: soap

textile

textile insulation?

thread

vulcanite

wood

Display Location

Display - ROG

Not on display

Creator

A.G., Emil Busch

AB Atvidabergs Industrier

Admiralty Compass Observatory

Aitchison & Co

Askaniawerke AG

Automatic Coil Winder & Electrical Equipment Co. Ltd.

Barr & Stroud Ltd

Beme Electronic and Marine Equipments Ltd

Blume, Dr.

Brown, A. C.

Bryant and May

C. P. Goerz

Dodd, William E.

Dollond & Aitchison

Edward John Dent & Co.

Enolin Ltd

Fox, Uffa

Grubb, Howard

Hart, William, & Co Ltd

Henry Hughes & Son Limited

Henry Hughes & Son Ltd

Hensoldt

John Brown & Company Ltd

Kershaw & Son Ltd

London Name Plate Manufacturing Co Ltd

Ludolph, W.

Marconi International Marine Communication Co. Ltd

Palmer's Shipbuilding & Iron Co Ltd

Plath, C.

Ransomes & May

Ransomes & Sims

Robertson, John

Ross Ltd

S. G. Brown Ltd

Stiegelmeyer, Albert

Thermotank

Troughton & Simms

Unknown

Wray (Optical Works) Ltd

Zeiss, Carl

Places

Acton

Berlin

Bremerhaven

Cowes

England

Germany

Glasgow

Hamburg

Hythe

Jena

London

London Borough of Islington

Rathenow, Germany

Sale

Slough

Sweden

United Kingdom

Unknown

Wetzlar, Germany

Events

Antarctic Exploration: Mawson's Australasian Antarctic Expedition, 1911-1914

World War I, 1914-1918

World War I: Battle of Jutland, 1916

World War I: Sinking of the Dresden, 1915

Vessels

Admiral Graf Spee (1934)

Burza fl.1925

Chakdina (1951)

Dresden fl.1915 (German navy)

Edward Cruse fl.1967

Exeter (1929)

Inflexible (1907)

Invincible (1907)

Navarra fl.1914 (German)

Orama (1911)

Pensive Temptress 1947

Queen Elizabeth (1940)

Strathlairg

Valiant (1914)

Whiting (1896)

People

Airy, George Biddell

Brooks, Victor Edwin Abraham

Christie, William Henry Mahoney

Dodd, William E.

Greater London Council

Princess Margaret, Countess of Snowdon

Queen Elizabeth II

Rich, Bertram

Royal Navy

Wrey, William Bourchier Sherard

Century

unknown

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Binoculars

Dwarf binnacle with compass

Telescope miscellaneous parts (Telescope miscellaneous parts)

Liquid compass and binnacle

Aircraft computer

Airy Transit instrument - illustration in Graphic magazine 1885

Airy's transit circle (Telescope)

Soho (Monocular)

Punkah louvre

Crossed miniature oars made from S.S. 'Navarra' (Model oar)

Spirit measure

Punkah louvre

Tooth soap case lid

Stereo prism binocular (Binoculars)

Shell case

Tooth soap case base

A fragment of German shell recovered from the battlecruiser HMS Inflexible (1907) during the battle of Jutland (Shell fragment)

Queen Elizabeth (1940); Merchant vessel; Passenger vessel; Passenger liner (Structural model; Slipway model)

Gun tompion for HMS Valiant (Gun tompion)

Snow goggles

Spirit measure

Pen stand containing inkwell and desk diary (Penstand)

Circular match tin (Match tin)

Stenor (Binoculars)

Liquid compass

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