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aerospace transport: aircraft (German)
aerospace transport: zeppelin
aerospace transport: zeppelin (German)
Arma-Brown Gyro compass
Arma-Brown gyrocompass
armament, firearm: gun, whaling harpoon
Azimuth compass
Azimuth motor
Azimuth motor - gyrcompass
Azimuth motor - gyrocompass
Block
Boat's Liquid Compass
Boat's liquid compass
Bodkin
Bombsight compass
Bombsight compass - aircraft compass
Box
Box Magazine
Bridge clock
Cables
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chronograph, sidereal
chronometer, marine
Clock
clock, longcase
Clock parts
Coffee spoon
commemorative artifact: bodkin
Compass
Compass bowl
Compass needle
Converter unit
Converter unit - aircraft compass
Cutlass
Deck watch
documentary artifact: globe, terrestrial: globe, hand
documentary artifact: replica, chronometer(H1)
drafting t&e: drawing instrument set
Drawing
Drawing instrument set
Dry card compass
Dry Card Compass
Dry compass
Experiment of Leith
first aid box
food service t&e: measure, spirit
food service t&e: spoon, salt
Full hull model
Full hull model; Plank-on-frame; Rigged model; Sails set
Fusee Engine
Guard Box
Guillotine blade
Gun, whaling harpoon
Gyro-magnetic compass cables
Gyrocompass
Gyrocompass cables
Hanger
land transport: tank
Liquid compass
Liquid compass - aircraft
Liquid compass - aircraft or small craft
Liquid compass - submarine
Liquid compass; shade
Liquid compass and binnacle
Liquid compass card
Longcase clock
Magnetic transmitting compass
Marine chronometer
Marine timekeeper
Mechanical log
Mechanical log part
medical & psychological t&e: first aid box(complete)
medical & psychological t&e: saw
Medicine balance
Miniature globe
Model
Octant
original art: print
Ornamental compass
padlock
Painting
personal gear: chain, watch ?
personal symbol: badge
Plank-on-frame
Pocket Watch
Pocket watch
pricker, sail
Print
Pulley block
Regulator, solar/sidereal
Repeater unit
Repeater unit - army compass
Replica marine timekeeper
Replica timekeeper
Resistance unit
Resistance unit - aircraft compass
Rigged model
Sails set
Salt spoon
Sectioned floating ballistic gyro
Sectioned gyrocompass wheel
Sectioned gyro wheel
shade
shipbuilding t&e: pricker, sail
Small-Sword
Spirit measure
Split-second timer
spoon, coffee
Stove
Submarine liquid compass
surgical saw
Survey chronometer
surveying & navigational t&e: card, compass: compass, dry
surveying & navigational t&e: card, compass: compass, liquid
surveying & navigational t&e: compass, aircraft: compass, liquid
surveying & navigational t&e: compass, aircraft: compass, liquid(distant reading)
surveying & navigational t&e: compass, aircraft: compass, liquid(vetical card)
surveying & navigational t&e: compass, army: compass, tank
surveying & navigational t&e: compass, army: compass, tank(directional gyro)
surveying & navigational t&e: compass, azimuth
surveying & navigational t&e: compass, bombsight(wimperis)
surveying & navigational t&e: compass, dry(plane table)
surveying & navigational t&e: compass, dry card
surveying & navigational t&e: compass, liquid(experimental)
surveying & navigational t&e: compass, liquid(universal compensation device)
surveying & navigational t&e: compass, magnetic transmitting
surveying & navigational t&e: compass, mariner's: compass, boat's liquid
surveying & navigational t&e: compass, mariner's: compass, dry card
surveying & navigational t&e: compass, mariner's: compass, liquid
surveying & navigational t&e: compass, mariner's: compass, liquid(azimuth)
surveying & navigational t&e: compass, mariner's: compass, liquid(submarine projector binnacle)
surveying & navigational t&e: compass, mariner's: compass, submarine liquid
surveying & navigational t&e: compass, ornamental
surveying & navigational t&e: compass, sledge: compass, dry card(Arctic)
surveying & navigational t&e: compass, special purpose: compass, tank
surveying & navigational t&e: log, mechanical
surveying & navigational t&e: needle, compass
Sword
Tank, cylindrical
Tank, cylindrical - aircraft compass
Tank, rectangular
Tank, rectangular - aircraft compass
Tank compass
Tape Chronograph
Technical record
Tiller
timekeeper: timekeeper, marine (H1)
Variation compass
watch, deck
watch, pocket
water transport: exploration/research vessel: survey vessel
water transport: fighting vessel: battleship (HMS)
water transport: fighting vessel: torpedo boat, motor
water transport accessory: padlock
water transport accessory: stove
weights & measures t&e: balance, medicine
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mahogany, steel, plastic, chrome, enamel, brass
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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metal: steel [balance]
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metal: steel [shackles]
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Admiralty Compass Observatory
Albion Lamp Co
Allom, Thomas
Anonymous
Arma-Brown
Arnald, George
Artillerie Inrichtingen
Askaniawerke AG
August Bremicker Söhne KG
Avery, W & T
B., T.
Bacon, Frederick
Bamberg, Carl
Barber, Thomas
Besley, Henry
Biard, François-Auguste
Blight, J. T.
Brierly, Oswald Walters
Brooker, T
Brooker, T.
Bull, Samuel
Cadell, Robert
Carwil
Chalon, Alfred Edward
Clark
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Cook, H.
Corbaux, Fanny
Cousen, John
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Cullum
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Day, W.
Dent, Edward John
Dubourg, M.
Dugdales
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E. A. Sckell
E. S. Ritchie & Sons
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Finden, William
Fisher, S.
Fox, Ags
Froment
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H. & F. Muller
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Hardy, William
Harper, T.
Harris, W Snow
Hatfield, Richard
Heath, Thomas
Henry Barrow & Co
Henry Hughes & Son Limited
Herler, Thomas
H Fisher, Son & Co
Hill, R.
Hogarth, William
Holdgate, R
Hollands
Holmes
Howells & Pennington
Humphrys, William
Instituto Idrografico Italian
James S. Vertue & Co Ltd
Jarvis, J.
Jendle, after
Jenkins, Joseph John
J G Klinger's Kunsthandlung
John & Arthur Arch
John E. Hand & Sons Co
John Lilley & Son Ltd
Jones & Co
Jones, S. J. E.
Jorden, H.
Joy, Thomas Musgrave
Keden
Kelvin & James White Ltd
Kelvin Bottomley & Baird Ltd
Krauss
Kullberg, Victor
Lancon, Gaetano
Leggatt
Lemania
LePetit, J.
Le Petit, W
Ludbrook, Alan
Ludolph, W.
Lupton, Thomas Goff
Mappin & Webb
McQueen
Miller, W.
Miller, William
Nicoll
Orme, Edward
Paget
Patin
Peichl, Lieutanant Joseph Von
Pentreath, R. T.
Periam, C. A.
Plath, C.
Preston, Grant
Priddle, A. T. C.
Ramsden, Jesse
Richter, Henry James
Robert and Henry Molyneux
Robinson, H.
Rolls, Charles
Rolls, H.
S. G. Brown Ltd
Salter, William
Salzer, Leonard
Scale Model International
Scan Globe
Secure
Sewell, John
Sewill, J.
Sewill, Joseph
Shepherd, Thomas Hosmer
Sicard, Louis
Sicard, Louis Marie
Sicardi, Louis Marie
Simmons, William Henry
Simpson Lawrence (Clayton First Aid Equipment)
Smith, Elder & Co
Sperry
S S & S Ltd
S Smith & Sons
Staines, R.
Stanfield, Clarkson
Starling, M. J.
T. Cooke and Sons Ltd
Thomas Agnew & Sons Ltd
Thomas Mercer Chronometers
Thomas Walker & Son Ltd
Thwaites & Reed
Topham, Francis William
Turner, Joseph Mallord William
Unknown
Virtue, George
W. P. Read
Wagstaff, C. E.
Wallis, Robert
Waltham Watch Co
Warren, Alfred William
West & Co
W H & S
White, James
Wilkie, David
Willis, William
Willmore, Arthur
Willmore, James Tibbetts
Witherington, William Frederick
Wood, John
Wrankmore, W. C.
Wright, John William
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American War of Independence: Battle of Bunker Hill, 1775
Antarctic Exploration: British National Antarctic Expedition, 1901-1904
French Revolutionary Wars: Battle of Cape St Vincent, 1797
French Revolutionary Wars: Battle of the Glorious First of June, 1794
French Revolutionary Wars: Battle of the Nile, 1798
Napoleonic Wars: Battle of Trafalgar, 1805
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Conqueror (1801)
Discovery (1901)
Fly (1831)
Fougueux (1785)
Gibraltar (1754)
Great Britain
Hinchinbrook 1744
Implacable (1899)
Leviathan (1790)
Liverpool (1741)
Mars (1794)
Moewe
Neptune (1797)
Pelican (1777)
Preston (1742)
Redoutable (1791)
Rose 1783 (HMS)
Royal Sovereign (1786)
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Santisima Trinidad (1769)
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Temeraire (1798)
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Achmuty, Arthur
Airy, George Biddell
Allom, Thomas
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Bowyer, George
British Army
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Brooks, Victor Edwin Abraham
Captain Braithwaite
Clark
Collingwood, Cuthbert
Cullum
Dubourg, M.
Dutch Engineer Troops
Dutch Government
Dutch Pioneer Troops
Finden, William
French Fleet
Graves, Samuel
Harding, James Duffield
Hardy, William
Harrison, John
Hogarth, William
Howe, Richard
Hugues, Victor
Jendle
King William III
Lancon, Gaetano
Le Petit, W
Macdonald, Flora
Mediterranean Fleet
Nelson, Horatio
Nicoll
Orient Line
Orme, Edward
Ramsden, Jesse
Royal Greenwich Observatory
Scott, Vice Matthew Henry
Sea Containers Services Limited
Shepherd, Thomas Hosmer
Sicard, Louis
Stanfield, Clarkson
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Resistance unit - aircraft compass
No. 4E109 (Guard Box)
Bombsight compass - aircraft compass
Liquid compass - aircraft
Liquid compass - aircraft
Magnetic transmitting compass
Dry card compass
Boat's Liquid Compass
Liquid compass - aircraft
Liquid compass
Compass
35548 (Pocket Watch)
Small-Sword
HMS 'Implacable' in the Dardanelles, 25 April 1915 (Painting)
Experiment of Leith(1788); Fighting vessel (Full hull model; Plank-on-frame; Rigged model; Sails set)
Tank compass
Liquid compass
Tiller
No. 55-178 (Pocket watch)
'The Forsaken' (Print)
'Flora MacDonald' (Print)
'The Sylph' (Print)
'The Maiden's Vow' (Print)
'Trysting-time' (Print)
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