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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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Artificial horizon
Artificial Mercurial Horizon
Astronomical regulator
Astronomical regulator case keys
Astronomical regulator mercury
Automatic Temperature Control System
Barometer
Boots, Finnesko
Bottle
Cabinet contents
Capt. George's Artificial mercurial horizon
clothing, footwear: boot(pair of fur boots)
clothing, headwear: uniform: hat, cocked
clothing, headwear: uniform: uniform, Lieutenant's
Cocked hat
Compass
Deep sea thermometer
Double compass
Electrical master clock
Electrical motor clock
Glass bottle
Glass log
Glass thermometer
Gyrocompass
Hat, cocked
Hydrometer
Jar
Log glass
Magnetic dial
Mercurial artificial horizon
Mercury
Mercury barometer
meteorological t&e: barometer, aneroid
meteorological t&e: barometer, mercury
meteorological t&e: barometer, mercury: barometer, cistern(domestic)
meteorological t&e: barometer, mercury: barometer, cistern(marine)
meteorological t&e: barometer, mercury: barometer, stick(marine barometer, cistern)
meteorological t&e: thermometer
meteorological t&e: thermostat
Pendulum
Portable viscometer case
Pressure instrument ?
Revolver
Sealskin hat
Sealskin trousers
Shortt Free Pendulum System No 3
Shortt master and slave clock system No 3
surveying & navigational t&e: artificial horizon
surveying & navigational t&e: artificial horizon, mercurial
surveying & navigational t&e: compass, double(incomplete)
surveying & navigational t&e: glass, log
surveying & navigational t&e: oceanographic instrument: hydrometer
surveying & navigational t&e: oceanographic instrument: hydrometer(in wooden case)
surveying & navigational t&e: oceanographic instrument: hydrometer(set of 4 with thermometer)
Sympiesometer
Thermometer
Thermometer box
Thermometers
Thermostat
timekeeper: chronometer, turret
timekeeper: clock, regulator
timekeeper: pendulum
timekeeper: regulator
timekeeping t&e: dial
timekeeping t&e: dial, portable: dial, magnetic
Turret clock
water transport: fighting vessel: 2nd rate (HMS)
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(possibly: mercury
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arsenic)
baize
brass
calomel (mercury compound)
chalk and mercury
chrome plate
Dover's powder (mercury compound)
electrical components
fur felt
glass
glass, leather, mercury, velvet, brass
green baize
inorganic: glass
iron
ivory
ivory (CITES)
lead
leather
leather?
mahogany
mercury
mercury?
mercury fulminate
mercury liquid form
metal
metal: brass
metal: mercury
metal: steel
oil
organic
organic: paper
organic: sealskin
organic: wood: oak
paper
perchloride of mercury
plastic
rubber
sealskin
silk
silk plush
silver
skin, reindeer, ?
steel
steel alloys
string
textile?
tin?
unidentified hardstone
velvet
wood
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Display - Bridge Gallery
Display - Polar Worlds Gallery
Display - ROG
Display - Voyagers
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Adie, Patrick
Askaniawerke AG
Bubo
Burbidge, Eleanor Margaret
Cary
Cary and Porter
Cetti, C
Colt, Samuel
Doughty & CO
Edward John Dent & Co.
Electro Methods Ltd
Elliott Bros
Gautrau
Gilbert & Sons
Gillett & Co.
Graham, John
John Grundy Ltd
Lacey & Co.
Negretti & Zambra
Norkett
Pennington, Robert
S. G. Brown Ltd
Selby
Shepherd, Charles
Staight, Thomas
Steger, I
Sun-Vic Controls Ltd
Synchronome Co Ltd
Thompson and Mercer
Unknown
W. & S. Jones
Whitbread, G.
Whitbread, George
Wilson, Charles
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Croydon
England
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Kiel
Liverpool
London
Portsmouth
Rochefort, France
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Westminster
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Antarctic Exploration: Mawson's Australasian Antarctic Expedition, 1911-1914
Arctic Exploration: Franklin Search Expedition, Schwatka, 1878-1880
Mexican–American War, 1846-1848
Napoleonic Wars: Battle of Trafalgar, 1805
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Cutty Sark (1869)
Discovery (1873)
Temeraire (1798)
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Ships, Clocks & Stars: The Quest for Longitude
Voyagers
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Admiral Douglas
Beaumont, Lewis Anthony
Cockburn, George
Crockford, Thomas
Godden, Richard
Herschel, Alexander Stewart
Herschel, John Frederick William
Herschel, William
Martin, Cornwallis Wykeham
Nelson, Horatio
Pennington, Robert
Prince Alfred Ernest Albert, Duke of Edinburgh
Robertson, Charles
Royal Greenwich Observatory
Sheepshanks, Reverend Richard
Woodget, Richard
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