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Astronomical and navigational instruments
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
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6" spherical mirror with 2" hole
12" mirror
Alidade
Armillary sphere
astronomical t&e: sphere, armillary
Backstaff
Backstaff horizon vane
Backstaff shadow vane
Backstaff sight vane
Backstaff vane
Backstaff with artificial horizon
Barometer
board, sketching
Box
box, sterilizing
ceremonial artifact: casket, launching
Chart Rule
Chart rule
Cross
Cross-staff
Cross staff
Currency balance
Cylinder dial
data processing t&e: computing instrument, navigational: napier's bones
data processing t&e: computing instrument: computer, tidal
data processing t&e: computing instrument: rule, slide
data processing t&e: computing instrument: rule, slide(Everards)
ddata processing t&e: computing instrument: rule, slide
Diptych dial
dividers
Dividing
Dividing model
drafting t&e: board, sketching
drafting t&e: dividers
drafting t&e: drawing instruments
drafting t&e: rule, parallel
drafting t&e: sector
drafting t&e: station pointer(fitted with alidade)
drawing instruments
Experiment of Leith
Figurehead model
Floating compass
food inspection t&e: triers, salt meat
Frame model
Full hull model
Full hull model; Frame model; Plank-on-frame; Separating model
Full hull model; Plank-on-frame; Dividing model
Full hull model; Plank-on-frame; Rigged model; Sails set
furniture: wardrobe
Gauge
gauge, ropemaking
Georgian, Full hull model
Gunter's scales
Gunter rule
Gunter scale
Horizontal Force Instrument
Horizontal Force Instrument lid
Inclining dial
Inflatable globe box
Inflatable globe box lid
Intaglio
Launching casket
Lodestone
Lodestone and keeper
Long focus lens
Magnet
Mallet
medical & psychological t&e: box, medicine(homeopathic)
medical & psychological t&e: box, sterilizing
Medicine chest
meteorological t&e: barometer, mercury: barometer, cistern(marine)
meteorological t&e: barometer, mercury: barometer, stick(marine barometer, cistern)
meteorological t&e: thermometer component: case
Napier's bones
Negative enlarging lens
Night telescope
Nocturnal
Non-achromatic night telescope
Non-achromatic telescope
Octant
Octant box
optical t&e: telescope
optical t&e: telescope(non-achromatic)
Parallel rule
personal symbol: coat of arms
Photograph Album
Plane-table rule
Plank-on-frame
Plate
Pocket compass
Polyhedral dial
Portable telescope
Portrait lens
Quadrant
Rangefinder telescope
Rigged model
rule, plane-table
rule, timber
Sails set
Salt meat triers
scale, fathom
scale, gunters
scale, sounding machine
Scenic, Dividing model
Seal
Seasonal inclining dial
Sectional model
Sector
Separating model
Sextant with Artificial Horizon
shipbuilding t&e: gauge, ropemaking
Slide rule
Slide rule - sliding Gunter rule
Station pointer
Stick barometer
Structural model
Structural model; Topographical model; Sectional model
surveying & navigational t&e: alidade
surveying & navigational t&e: backstaff
surveying & navigational t&e: compass, pocket
surveying & navigational t&e: compass, pocket: compass, floating
surveying & navigational t&e: cross staff
surveying & navigational t&e: depth sounding equipment: scale, fathom(vin H)
surveying & navigational t&e: horizontal force instrument
surveying & navigational t&e: lodestone(artificial magnet)
surveying & navigational t&e: octant
surveying & navigational t&e: rule, plane table
surveying & navigational t&e: scale, gunters
surveying & navigational t&e: scales, gunter's
surveying & navigational t&e: scales, gunter's: chart rule
surveying & navigational t&e: sextant
Telescope
Telescope and rangefinder
Telescope eyepiece tube
Thermometer case
Tidal computer
timekeeping t&e: dial, portable: dial, diptych
timekeeping t&e: dial, portable: dial, pillar
timekeeping t&e: dial, portable: dial, polyhedral
timekeeping t&e: dial, portable: dial, string gnomon
timekeeping t&e: dial, portable: dial, universal equinoctial
timekeeping t&e: dial, portable: dial, vertical
timekeeping t&e: nocturnal
Topographical model
Wardrobe
Watch components
water transport: fighting vessel: 1st rate (HMS)
water transport: fighting vessel: 3rd rate (HMS)
water transport: fighting vessel: 100 gun ship (HMS)
water transport: fighting vessel: galley (replica)
water transport: fighting vessel: ketch, bomb (HMS)
water transport: fighting vessel: submarine (HMS)
water transport: model, exhibition: full hull model(decked: equipped)
water transport: model, vessel: full hull model(decked)
water transport: sailing vessel: schooner
water transport: service vessel: tender, barge
water transport accessory: figurehead
water transport accessory: model, figurehead
water transport accessory: scale, sounding machine
weights & measures t&e: balance, coin
weights & measures t&e: rule, timber(shipwrights)
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beech
bone
box
box: wood covered with black shark skin and lined with magenta silk
boxwood
boxwood (?)
boxwood, brass
boxwood, brass, paper
boxwood, brass, plastic, paper
brass
brass, grenadilla wood,
card
cardboard
cardbox
coating: varnish
copper
cork
fruitwood
glass
glass & metal, wooden box, paper label
Glass, metal, leather(?), wood lens cap, wooden box
glass, silver, wooden box
glass, wooden box
ivory
ivory (CITES), lignum vitae
lacquered boxwood
leather
leather label from original box
lignum vitae
liquid
magnetite
mahogany
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.
metal
metal: brass
metal: brass, anodised
metal: brass-gilt, ?
metal: brass [hinges & lock]
metal: brass [pans]
metal: brass [stand]
metal: copper
metal: copper [box]
metal: silver
metal: steel
mica
organic: boxwood
organic: cork [tops]
organic: cotton
organic: ivory
organic: leather
organic: leather [lid lining]
organic: paper
organic: paper [dial]
organic: sharkskin [box]
organic: silk
organic: silk [box lining]
organic: wood: box
organic: wood: boxwood
organic: wood: lignum vitae
organic: wood [box]
paint
paper
pearwood
perspex
pine
plastic
purpose-made box
silver
silver & glass, wooden box
Spode fine bone china plate, 22 carat gold ribbon satin, card packing box white & black & gold (plate) & blue & white & gold (box)
steel
string
synthetic: glass [phials]
varnish
varnished boxwood
vellum
wboxood
wood (box)
wood: box
wood: boxwood
wood: boxwood ?
wood: boxwood inlay
wood: ebony inlay
wood: lignum vitae
wood: mahogany
wood: mahogany [box]
wood: walnut
wood [box]
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Display - QH
Display - ROG
Display - Tudor and Stuart Seafarers Gallery
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Ackermann, Rudolph
Arnold, Thomas
Aston & Mander Ltd
Bate, Robert
Bate, Robert Brettell
Berge, Matthew
Beringer, David
Boothby, Frank
Browne, John
Cary
Cassell, A.
Cole, Benjamin
Coombes
Corson, Robert
Dallmeyer, J. H.
Dennis, J C
Dennis, John Charles
Dollond & Aitchison
Dover, A. W.
Dring & Fage
Edward Kahler, E
Elton, John
Engleheart, John Cox Dillman
Garner, Will
Gilbert, John
Gould, Edward
Hay, Cdr
Henry Hughes & Son Limited
Holway, Harold
Jones, William
Kelvin & Hughes Ltd
Kelvin Bottomley & Baird Ltd
Knott, George
Lee, George, & Son
Lightley, Robert A.
Ludbrook, Alan
Marin & Schmidt
Martin, Benjamin
Mitchell, Thomas
Nairne & Blunt
National Maritime Museum
Patrick, John
Place, William
Potter, John Dennett
Robert, Henry
Ross, Andrew
Sariant, Thomas
Sarrazin
Savage, William
Scoresby, Reverend William
Sisson, Jonathan
Spurling, Jack
Stebbing, J R
Thorp Modelmakers
Tobzigli, Giero
Troughton & Simms
Unknown
W. & S. Jones
W. T. Copeland & Sons Ltd
West
White, George
Wray, David
Xiu-Shui, Fang
Yang-Qi, Wang
Yeff, Robert
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Places
Bexley
Bristol
Cape Town
Charlton
Devonport
England
Italy
London
Marseilles
Nuremberg
Paris
Portsmouth
possibly France
Southampton
Strand
Strasbourg
Tsinan, China
Unknown
Washington
West Hampton, USA
Xiuning
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Events
Arctic Exploration: North Pole expedition, Nares, 1875-1876
Great Storm, 1703
Second Boer War: Battle of Ladysmith, 1899
World War I, 1914-1918
World War I: Battle of Jutland, 1916
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Vessels
Cambria (1906)
Chakdina (1951)
Grenado (1742)
Lady of St Kilda fl.1837
M2 (1919)
Nelson (1876)
Royal William (1719)
Stirling Castle 1679
Strathlairg
Victory (1765)
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Exhibition
Guiding Lights
Samuel Pepys: Plague, Fire, Revolution
Ships, Clocks & Stars: The Quest for Longitude
The Atlantic: Slavery, Trade, Empire
The Moon
Time and Longitude
Traders: The East India Company and Asia
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People
Acland, Thomas Dyke
Bate, Robert Brettell
Bonaparte, Napoleon
Cook, James
Costa, Michael
Dallmeyer, J. H.
Daniel, Christopher St John Hume
Department of Trade and Industry, Marine Survey Office
Griffin, Colour Sergeant Robert
Herschel, John Frederick William
Ibbotson, William, Temp Surgfl.
Jervis, John
J M Botibol
King George III
Lettforn, Dr
Lysons, Mary
Money, B.
Montagu, George
Nelson, Horatio
Royal Greenwich Observatory
Salter, Jocelyn S.C.
Stock, A R A
Tizard, Thomas Henry
Townsend, C. R.
Troughton & Simms
Watts, Philip
White, Thomas
William James Herschel
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Slide rule
Octant
Nares Arctic Expedition, 1875-1876. (Photograph Album)
Wardrobe
Cylinder dial
Diptych dial
Diptych dial
Diptych dial
Diptych dial
Diptych dial
Polyhedral dial
The Cutty Sark plate (Plate)
Experiment of Leith(1788); Fighting vessel (Full hull model; Plank-on-frame; Rigged model; Sails set)
Slide rule
Slide rule
Backstaff with artificial horizon
Slide rule - sliding Gunter rule
Octant
Negative enlarging lens
Slide rule
Backstaff
Chart Rule
Box
Dennis's Lunar Sextant (Sextant with Artificial Horizon)
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