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Alarm clock
Antenna switching unit
A pocket watch with an early form of automatic winding
A presentation gold pocket watch
Astronomical alarm clock
Astronomical table clock
Balancing object
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Bolt
Boom
box spanner
Bucket
Cable
Channel Unit
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clothing, outerwear: uniform: coat, full dress
clothing, outerwear: uniform: full dress uniform, Admiral's
clothing, outerwear: uniform: full dress uniform, Commander's
clothing, outerwear: uniform: full dress uniform, Vice-Admiral's
Colour transparency
Combination clock
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Deck watch
Drop Keel
D Shackle
Electric Clock
Electric Impulse Clock
Electric Impulse Dial
Experiment of Leith
Eye
eye
Fire clock
Full dress coat
Full hull model
Full hull model; Plank-on-frame; Rigged model; Sails set
furniture: clock, mantel
Hexagonal spanner
Hook
Hull
Keel
Long case clock
Mantel clock
Marine chronometer
Microphone
Monochrome transparency
Naval telescope
Nuclear weapon timing device
Nut
Pedometer-wind pocket watch
Pedometer watch
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Pocket watch
Pocket watch movement
Processor unit
Pulley block
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Ring
Ring spanner
Rod
Rudder
Sails set
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Ship's clock
Slave dial
Slave Dials
Stake
Stop-watch
Stop watch
Stopwatch
Synchronous motor electric clock
Telescope
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Time ball
Time ball mechanism
timekeeper: chronometer
timekeeper: chronometer, marine
timekeeper: chronometer, marine(8 day)
timekeeper: clock
timekeeper: clock(rolling ball)
timekeeper: clock, alarum(8 day astronomical)
timekeeper: clock, long case
timekeeper: movement, watch
timekeeper: table, astronomical
timekeeper: watch
timekeeper: watch, chronometer
timekeeper: watch, pocket
timekeeper: watch, stop
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Tube
Unidentified tool
washer
Watch
watch
watch, deck
watch, pocket
Watch fobs
Wind vane
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Marine ply, lime, ramin and boxwood. Metal - brass, copper and stainless steel, Glues used were white wood glue, epoxy and superglue, sails are tracing linen. Paints are enamel with polyurethane varnish.
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organic: wool
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Display - Ocean Court
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A. Johannsen & Co
American Waltham Watch Co
Anonymous
Atkins, Robert Roskell and Brockbank &
British Broadcasting Corporation
Bull, Knud Geelmuyden
Bulova
Buschman, Caspar
Cardnall Bros
Co., Omega Watch
Crisp, W. B.
Earnshaw, Thomas
Everett Edgcumbe & Co. Ltd
Gardner & Co
Garrat, H
Gents' of Leicester
Gieves & Hawkes Ltd
Graham, George
Granges, Des
Guilmet
Hatton, James
Ingersoll
Jack Holt Ltd
Johnson, William
Jones, William
Joseph T. Eltringham and Co
Kullberg, Victor
Kunzler, Robert
Ludbrook, Alan
Maudslay, Sons & Field
Molyneux, Robert
Moncas, John
Morgan-Giles, Francis Charles
National Physical Laboratory
Parkinson & Frodsham
Proctor, Ian
Reid & Sons
Richardsons Boats & Plastics Ltd
Roskell, Robert
Roskopf, Georges Frederic
Saddleton, James Parlett
Sewill, Joseph
Synchronome Co Ltd
T. Russell & Son
Thomas, Seth
Thomas Mercer Chronometers
Thwaites & Reed
Tompion, Thomas
Tregent, James
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Vacheron & Constantin
Waltham Watch Co
Waterbury Watch Company
Watts, William
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Ormskirk, Lancashire, England
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Teddington, Middlesex, England
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Waltham, Massachusetts, USA
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Arctic Exploration: Parry's first voyage, 1819-1820
Paris Exhibition, 1867
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Arabesque (1955)
Canberra (1961)
Chinkoa (1952)
Cutty Sark (1869)
Essex (1954)
Fury (1814)
Hecla (1815)
Himalaya (1949)
Lady Margaret (1968)
Speedwell (1956)
Victoria and Albert (1855)
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Britannia Naval College
Cardnall Bros
Casimir V
Congreve
Crofton, Stephen Smith Lowther
Freeman, Edward William
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Jack Holt Ltd
Manners, Robert
Miles, Robert
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Parry, William Edward
Proctor, Ian
Richardsons Boats & Plastics Ltd
Royal Greenwich Observatory
Street, John
Thursfield, Henry George
Webb, Richard
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A new midships section abaft the small bridge of an unidentified ship being constructed in London Docks by R. & H. Green & Silley Weir Ltd. (Monochrome transparency)
5285 (Stop-watch)
Electric Impulse Clock (Electric Impulse Clock)
8968 (Pocket watch)
Warren Synclock (Synchronous motor electric clock)
Time ball (Time ball)
BBC microphone (Microphone)
PUL-SYN-ETIC (Electric Impulse Clock)
A presentation gold pocket watch 10521547 (Pocket watch)
Pocket watch (Pocket watch)
Wrist watch (Wrist watch)
Bulova 'Accutron' tuning-fork wristwatch (Wristwatch)
A port bow view of the offshore supply vessel Lady Margaret (1968) at anchor close to an oil rig platform in the North Sea. (Colour transparency)
Two passengers and a steward on the quayside walking past the port bow of the Peninsular & Oriental steam Navigation Company passenger liner Himalaya (1949) at Sydney, New South Wales. (Colour transparency)
The First Class Swimming Pool on the Games Deck on board the Peninsular & Oriental Steam Navigation Company passenger liner Canberra (1961). (Colour transparency)
Two women having a pillow fight above the First Class Swimming Pool on the Games Deck on board the Peninsular & Oriental Steam Navigation Company passenger liner Canberra (1961). (Colour transparency)
Loading cargo at number 2 hold of the Federal Steam Navigation Company cargo liner Essex (1954) alongside a quay at Sydney, New South Wales. (Colour transparency)
A disco dance in progress on board the Peninsular & Oriental Steam Navigation Company passenger liner Canberra (1961). (Colour transparency)
Three men in shorts playing deck tennis on board an unidentified Peninsular & Oriental Group passenger liner while at sea. (Colour transparency)
A fancy dress dance in the First Class Ballroom on the Games Deck on board the Peninsular & Oriental Steam Navigation Company passenger liner Canberra (1961). (Colour transparency)
Two men having a pillow fight above the First Class Swimming Pool on the Games Deck on board the Peninsular & Oriental Steam Navigation Company passenger liner Canberra (1961). (Colour transparency)
A new midships section abaft the small bridge of an unidentified ship being constructed in London Docks by R. & H. Green & Silley Weir Ltd. (Monochrome transparency)
An aerial port side view, taken from well abaft the beam, of the British India Steam Navigation Company cargo liner Chinkoa (1952) under way in coastal waters. (Colour transparency)
A flywheel in the engine room of an unidentified ship in London Docks being lifted by geared chain pulley hoists. (Monochrome transparency)
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