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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
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Amulet
armament accessory: sight, telescope
Astrolabe
Astrolabe7
astronomical t&e: astrolabe
astronomical t&e: telescope, achromatic
astronomical t&e: telescope, achromatic(triple achromatic)
Augsburg dial
Azimuth compass
Badge
Butterfield dial
Clockwork globe
Compass card
Compass dial
Compass frame
Day telescope
documentary artifact: globe, celestial
documentary artifact: globe, celestial: globe, clockwork
Dry card compass
Equinoctial dial
Inclining dial
Medal
Naval telescope
Night telescope
Officer of the Watch telescope
optical t&e: eyepiece, telescope
optical t&e: telescope
optical t&e: telescope(non-achromatic)
personal symbol: crest (rampant lion)
Prize medal
Qibla indicator
Qibla indicator lid
Rangefinder
Rangefinder telescope
rangefinder telescope
Scaphe dial
surveying & navigational t&e: compass, asiatic: compass, quiblah
surveying & navigational t&e: compass, azimuth
surveying & navigational t&e: compass, azimuth: compass, dry card
surveying & navigational t&e: rangefinder(stadiometer)
surveying & navigational t&e: telescope(officer of the watch)
surveying & navigational t&e: theodolite
Table globe
Telescope
Telescope eyepiece
Theodolite
timekeeping t&e: dial(compass)
timekeeping t&e: dial, portable: dial, Augsburg
timekeeping t&e: dial, portable: dial, Butterfield
timekeeping t&e: dial, portable: dial, inclining
timekeeping t&e: dial, portable: dial, mechanical equinoctial
timekeeping t&e: dial, portable: dial, scaphe
timekeeping t&e: dial, portable: dial, universal equinoctial
visual communication t&e: code, signal
water transport: fighting vessel: 2nd rate (HMS)
water transport: fighting vessel: 3rd rate (HMS)
water transport: fighting vessel: battleship (HMS)
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silvered brass?
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Display - Polar Worlds Gallery
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Adams, George
al-Yazdi, Muhammad Mahdi
Armand, Jacques Etienne
Blakey, G. H.
Cary
Cattin, Jean Baptiste
Coombes
Cox, William Charles
Dollond & Aitchison
Gieves & Hawkes Ltd
Heath, W.
Knittl, Franz Antoni
Langlois, Claude
Mills, Robert
N., M.H.
Nourry, Jean
Outhier, Abbe Reginald
Petrus Plancius, Petrus
Pritchard, Andrew
Ross, Andrew
Rossi, A. F.
Rossi, Constante
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Senex, John
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Van Emden, A
Voigtlander & Sohn
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Worthington & Allan
Yun, Kan
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Arctic Exploration: Franklin's Last Expedition, 1845-1848
Arctic Exploration: Franklin Search Expedition, Schwatka, 1878-1880
Brazilian Naval Revolts, 1893-1894
Exploration: Columbus' First Voyage, 1492-1493
International Congress of Rescue, 1878
Second Banda Oriental campaign: Second Siege of Montevideo, 1812
Second Boer War, 1889-1902
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Presidente Sarmiento (1897)
Pueyrredon fl.1900 (Argentinian)
Terrible (1895)
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Boys, Henry (RN)
Boys, William H (RN)
Brown, Admfl
Burgess, John, retfl
Chilean School of Naval Engineers
Columbus, Christopher
Cook, James
Cust, Francis P
Fowler, Robert Merrick
General Alvear
Life-Saving Institute of the Mediterranean
Lockyer, Hughes Campbell
Martin, Cornwallis Wykeham
Mello, Custodio de
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Rossi, A. F.
Rossi, Constante
Ross Ltd
Saunders, Walter John Tite
Scott, Charles Montagu Douglas
W & B
Watts, James Samuel
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The Stadiometer (Rangefinder)
The Stadiometer (Rangefinder telescope)
Officer of the Watch telescope
Augsburg dial
Equinoctial dial
Night telescope
Naval telescope
Equinoctial dial
Officer of the Watch telescope
Naval telescope
Officer of the Watch telescope
Night telescope
Day telescope
Theodolite
Compass card
Qibla indicator
Inclining dial
Medal commemorating the 400th anniversary of the discovery of America, 1892 (Medal)
Fisherman's charm (Amulet)
Telescope eyepiece
No 1 4.7 Telescope Gun Sight (Officer of the Watch telescope)
Azimuth compass
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