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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

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

Chart Rule

Chart rule

Cross

Cross-staff

Cross staff

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

Dividing

Dividing model

drafting t&e: board, sketching

drafting t&e: rule, parallel

drafting t&e: sector

drafting t&e: station pointer(fitted with alidade)

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

Intaglio

Mallet

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

Night telescope

Nocturnal

Non-achromatic night telescope

Non-achromatic telescope

Octant

optical t&e: telescope

optical t&e: telescope(non-achromatic)

Parallel rule

personal symbol: coat of arms

Plane-table rule

Plank-on-frame

Pocket compass

Polyhedral dial

Portable telescope

Quadrant

Rigged model

rule, plane-table

rule, timber

Sails set

Salt meat triers

scale, fathom

scale, gunters

scale, sounding machine

Seal

Seasonal inclining dial

Sector

Separating model

Sextant with Artificial Horizon

shipbuilding t&e: gauge, ropemaking

Slide rule

Slide rule - sliding Gunter rule

Station pointer

Stick barometer

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: 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 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

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 accessory: figurehead

water transport accessory: model, figurehead

water transport accessory: scale, sounding machine

weights & measures t&e: rule, timber(shipwrights)

Materials

beech

bone

boxwood

boxwood (?)

boxwood, brass

boxwood, brass, paper

boxwood, brass, plastic, paper

brass

brass, grenadilla wood,

card

cardboard

copper

fruitwood

glass

ivory

ivory (CITES), lignum vitae

lacquered boxwood

leather

lignum vitae

liquid

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: silver

mica

organic: boxwood

organic: leather

organic: paper

organic: wood: boxwood

organic: wood: lignum vitae

paint

paper

pearwood

perspex

pine

plastic

silver

steel

string

varnish

varnished boxwood

vellum

wood: boxwood

wood: boxwood ?

wood: boxwood inlay

wood: ebony inlay

wood: lignum vitae

wood: mahogany

Display Location

Display - QH

Display - ROG

Display - Tudor and Stuart Seafarers Gallery

Not on display

Creator

Ackermann, Rudolph

Arnold, Thomas

Aston & Mander Ltd

Bate, Robert

Bate, Robert Brettell

Berge, Matthew

Beringer, David

Browne, John

Cary

Cole, Benjamin

Coombes

Corson, Robert

Dennis, J C

Dennis, John Charles

Dollond & Aitchison

Dover, A. W.

Dring & Fage

Elton, John

Engleheart, John Cox Dillman

Garner, Will

Gilbert, John

Hay, Cdr

Henry Hughes & Son Limited

Kelvin & Hughes Ltd

Kelvin Bottomley & Baird Ltd

Lee, George, & Son

Lightley, Robert A.

Ludbrook, Alan

Martin, Benjamin

Nairne & Blunt

National Maritime Museum

Patrick, John

Place, William

Potter, John Dennett

Robert, Henry

Sariant, Thomas

Sarrazin

Savage, William

Sisson, Jonathan

Stebbing, J R

Thorp Modelmakers

Tobzigli, Giero

Troughton & Simms

Unknown

W. & S. Jones

West

Wray, David

Xiu-Shui, Fang

Yang-Qi, Wang

Yeff, Robert

Places

Bristol

Cape Town

Charlton

Devonport

England

Italy

London

Marseilles

Nuremberg

Paris

Portsmouth

possibly France

Southampton

Tsinan, China

Unknown

West Hampton, USA

Xiuning

Events

Great Storm, 1703

Second Boer War: Battle of Ladysmith, 1899

Vessels

Chakdina (1951)

Grenado (1742)

Lady of St Kilda fl.1837

M2 (1919)

Royal William (1719)

Stirling Castle 1679

Strathlairg

Victory (1765)

Exhibition

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

People

Acland, Thomas Dyke

Bate, Robert Brettell

Bonaparte, Napoleon

Cook, James

Costa, Michael

Daniel, Christopher St John Hume

Department of Trade and Industry, Marine Survey Office

Griffin, Colour Sergeant Robert

Herschel, John Frederick William

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

Townsend, C. R.

Troughton & Simms

White, Thomas

William James Herschel

Century

unknown

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Marine barometer (Barometer)

Station pointer

Parallel rule

Nocturnal

Diptych dial

Inclining dial

Figurehead - starboard side rear figures

HMS Victory (1765); Warship; First rate; 100 guns (Figurehead model)

Parallel rule

Slide rule

Alidade

Chart rule

board, sketching

Gunter scale

Slide rule

Gunter's scales

Floating compass

Pocket compass

Gunter quadrant (Quadrant)

Backstaff

Stick barometer

Horizontal Force Instrument

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