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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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A. Binnacle projector - submarine
Aluminium tube
armament accessory: box, tube
armament accessory: tube, electric
armament t&e, ammunition: tube, firing
astronomical t&e: telescope(refracting comet seeking)
astronomical t&e: telescope, achromatic
astronomical t&e: telescope, reflecting
astronomical t&e: telescope, reflecting(20ft)
astronomical t&e: telescope component: tube, telescope
astronomical t&e: telescope component: tube, telescope(reflecting)
Barometer tube
Binnacle projector - submarine
Boiler Model
Boiler model
Boiler tube model
Box of sounding tubes
Buoyancy case ventilation tube
Cabinet contents
Collimating tubes housing for ATC
Component model
Component model; Sectional model
copper tube
Cylindrical tube
Day or night telescope draw tube
Deep sea lead
Depth sounding equipment
Design, Full hull model
Design, Sectional model
Draw tube
Draw tube for the telescope
Electric tube
electron tube
Electron tube box
Equipment model
Equipment model; Boiler model
Equipment model; Boiler tube model
expander, boiler tube
Extendable eyepiece tube
Extension tube
Extension tube ?
Extension tube?
Firing tubes
Full hull model
function unknown: tube
Glass tube
Instructional, Sectional model
Laboratory spectroscope eyepiece
Laboratory spectroscope eyepiece tube
Laboratory spectroscope spare tube
Laboratory spectroscope tube
Metal tube
metalworking t&e: expander, boiler tube(shipwrights)
Mounting tube
Mounting tube fittings
Mounting tube fittings?
Night telescope
Octant sight tube
optical t&e: draw tube, telescope(eyepiece draw tube)
optical t&e: draw tube, telescope(two pieces)
optical t&e: telescope
Optical tube assembly
Part of the octagonal telescope barrel
Photographic Zenith Tube
Photographic zenith tube handle
Pressure sounding tube
Quintant draw tube
Quintant sight tube
Quintant spare draw tube
Rectangular mirror in tube
Reflecting circle
Reflecting circle draw tube
Reflecting circle shade t
Reflecting circle shade tube
Reflecting circle sight tube
Repeating circle
Repeating circle; Draw tube
Repeating circle; Sight tube
ring
Roxby's pendulum quadrant sight tube
Sectional model
Sectional model; Boiler Model
Sectional model; Component model
Sectional modelInstructional, Sectional model
Sextant
Sextant eyepiece
Sextant eyepiece tube
Sextant sighting tube
Sextant sight tube
Sextant spare draw tube
Sextant telescope
Ship equipment model
Ship equipment modelBoiler tube model
Sight-tube
Sighting tube
sighting tube
Sighting tube for sextant
Sight tube
sight tube
Sight tube?
Sight tube? for sextant
Sight tube? for sextant
Sight tube for sextant
Sounding tube
Sounding tube case
Sounding tube container
Sounding tube container base
Sounding tube container lid
Sounding tube lid
Sounding tube part
Sounding tube scale
Sounding tube tin
Sounding tube tin base
Sounding tube tin lid
Spare draw tube with lens
Spare draw tube with lense
Spare telescope draw tube with lens
Spare tube for image intensifier?
speaking tube
Specimen tube
Spirit level tube
Spyglass telescope tube
Submarine compass and binnacle, part
surveying & navigational t&e: depth sounding equipment: lead, deep sea(with tube)
surveying & navigational t&e: depth sounding equipment: tube, sounding(set of 10)
surveying & navigational t&e: depth sounding equipment: tube, sounding(set of 12)
surveying & navigational t&e: depth sounding equipment: tube, sounding(set of ten)
surveying & navigational t&e: mounting tube, heeling error corrector
Telescope
Telescope barrel and objective lens
Telescope draw tube
Telescope draw tube and objective lens assembly
Telescope draw tube fragment
Telescope eyepiece tube
Telescope for sextant
Telescope for sextant
Telescope part
Telescope tube
telescope tube
Telescope tube and mounting
Telescope tube cap
Telescope tube section
Telescopice tube
Telescopic tube
Test tube
The decagonal barrel of this non-achromatic telescope is made of mahogany and is tapered. It has a single brass draw tube and brass fittings, including a sliding objective lens cover, of which the slide is missing. The eyepiece is also missing.Night telescope
Theodolite extension tube
Theodolite telescope tub
Theodolite telescope tube
threaded tube
Timing weights
tube
Tube
tube, rocket firing
tube, telescope
Tube case
tube of metal adhesive
Tubes, Firing
UBL21 tube
UF 41 tube
Unidentified plasstic tube
water transport: fighting vessel: armour-plated
water transport: model, design: full hull model
water transport: service vessel: hull, experimental (bouyancy tubes)
water transport: steam vessel: yacht
water transport accessory: boiler, water tube
water transport accessory: model, boiler
water transport accessory: tube, rocket firing
water transport accessory: tube, sounding
water transport component: boiler, firetube box
water transport component: boiler tube (plan for repair)
water transport component: midship: scuttle tube
water transport component: midship: scuttle tube, screw plug/light
water transport component: model, boiler tube
water transport component: model, design: sectional model(decked: midship: side)
water transport component: model, design: sectional model(half: midship)
water transport component: model, design: sectional model(oar port)
water transport component: model, instructional: sectional model(cutaway)
water transport component: oar port: scuttle hole tube (plan for plugging in iron-plated wood-built ships)
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Bakelite / Phenol Formaldehyde (PF)
bone
boxwood
brass
Brass
cardboard
coating: varnish
copper
cork
glass
glass, metal
inorganic: glass
iron
ivory
lead
leather
mahogany
metal
metal: alloy, aluminium
metal: brass
metal: copper
metal: iron
metal: lead
metal: steel
metal: tin
nickel alloy
organic: felt
organic: horn
paint
paper
pine wood
plastic
rayskin
silver
Steel
tin
vellum
wax
wood
wood: mahogany
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Display - Maritime London Gallery
Display - Polar Worlds Gallery
Display - ROG
Display - Sea Things Gallery
Not on display
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Army & Navy Co-operative Society Ltd
Baharie, A.
Berge, Matthew
Browning, John
Burroughs, Wellcome & Co
Cail, John
Cary
Cary, William
Clark, E
Collins Radio Co
Coombes, J.
Dollond & Aitchison
Dollond, John
Downie, Thomas
Edward John Dent & Co.
Elliott Bros
Ertel & Sohn
Frodsham & Keen
Heath & Co. Ltd
Heather, William
Henry Hughes & Son Limited
Herschel, Caroline Lucretia
Herschel, John Frederick William
Herschel, William
Hicks, G. E.
Hinde, John
Hube
Hughes, Joseph
Johann Alexander Herschel
John Lilley & Son Ltd
John Samuel White and Co. Ltd
Jones, Thomas
Joseph T. Eltringham and Co
Kelvin & Hughes Ltd
Kelvin & James White Ltd
Kelvin Bottomley & Baird Ltd
Meredith, Nicholas
Negretti & Zambra
Owens, Owen
Parkinson & Frodsham
Parnell, William
Paul Cameron and John Blakeney
Plath, C.
Ramsden, Jesse
Reynolds & Wiggins
Ross, Andrew
Rossi, George
Spencer Browning & Rust
Stebbing, Joseph
Taylor, Janet
Thomas Ripley & Son
Thomson, William
Troughton & Simms
Unknown
Whitbread, G.
Wigzell, Eustace Ernest
Wilson & Gillie
Winchester's Repeating Arms
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Places
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Clay Hall near Windsor, completed in Slough.
Cowes
Devonport
England
France
Germany
Glasgow
Hamburg
Liverpool
London
Munich
Newcastle upon Tyne
New Eltham
New Haven
Norwich
Plymouth
possibly France
Ruislip
Southampton
South Shields
Sunderland
Unknown
Woolwich Dockyard
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Arctic Exploration: Franklin's Last Expedition, 1845-1848
Arctic Exploration: Franklin Search Expedition, McClintock, 1857-1859
Arctic Exploration: Franklin Search Expedition, Schwatka, 1878-1880
World War I, 1914-1918
World War I: Battle of Jutland, 1916
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Boxer (1894)
Chakdina (1951)
Fox (1855)
King George V (1911)
Strathlairg
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Clark, Edward
Elliot, E
Foster, William
Franklin, John
Herschel, Caroline Lucretia
Herschel, John Frederick William
Herschel, William
Irving, John
Johann Alexander Herschel
Lubbock, Constance
McClintock, Francis Leopold
Redmill, J. D.
South Kensington Museum
Woolley, Richard van der Riet
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Sounding tube tin lid
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Sounding tube tin lid
Sounding tube tin base
Sounding tube tin lid
Sounding tube part
Sounding tube tin base
Sounding tube part
Sounding tube part
Sounding tube tin base
Telescopic tube
Telescope tube
Telescope tube
Telescope tube
Spare tube for image intensifier?
Binnacle projector - submarine
Tube (Telescope part)
Specimen tube (Cabinet contents)
Glass tube
Telescope tube
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