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3. Astronomy demonstrated: instruments and models

Astrolabes and quadrants

Celestial navigation

Charting instruments

Compasses

Course, speed and distance indicators

Electronic navigation

Exploring the Arctic

Globes

Globes and globe gores

Herschel family

Meteorological instruments

Optical equipment

Popular Astronomy

Sundials

Telescopes

Telescopes at the Royal Observatory Greenwich

Telescopes Online Gallery

The Herschels as experimenters

The Herschels as instrument makers

The many faces of the telescope

Charts and maps

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De Gomme collection

Des Barres collection

Duckworth collection

Duff collection

Ericsson collection

Globes

Globes and globe gores

Goodsall collection

Green Blackwall collection - charts

Henry Newton Stevens Atlantic Neptune collection

Hopton Hall collection

Lockyer collection

Loose maps and charts: general collection

Moriarty collection

Northey collection

Penrose collection

Pirelli collection

Portolans and loose charts on vellum

Printed atlases

STC collection

Stokes collection

Westlake collection

Coins and medals

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Coins

Commemorative medals

Michael Graham-Stewart collection

Naval General Service Medal 1793-1840

Orders and medals

Recent acquisitions

The Naval Gold Medal

Decorative art

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Ceramics

Furniture

Glass

Hope Service

Jewellery

Michael Graham-Stewart collection

Objet d'art

Plate

Sailors' craftwork

Timekeeping

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Astronomical regulators and precision clocks

Chronometers, precision watches and timekeepers

Domestic clocks and watches

Other horological instruments

Type

Alidade

Analemmatic dial

armament accessory: callipers, gunner's

Armillary sphere

Artificial Gyroscopic Horizon

Artificial gyroscopic horizon box

Astrolabe

astronomical t&e: astrolabe

astronomical t&e: orrery

astronomical t&e: sphere, armillary

astronomical t&e: telescope, achromatic

Augsburg dial

Badge

Bearing Plate

Binoculars

Binoculars case

Binoculars strap

Boat's liquid compass

Boat's Liquid Compass

Boat's Liquid Compass and Binnacle

Box

Bust

Butterfield dial

Cannon dial

Carbon arc lamp

Card

Case

Case lid

cast: medal cast: commemorative medal(France)

Chart

Chronometer box

Circumferentor

Clock

Clock dial

Clock movement and dial

Clockwork globe

Colombel compass

Colour transparency

Compass dial

Cup

curve, draughtsman's

Cylinder dial

data processing t&e: rule, measuring

Deflector

Distance meter

documentary artifact: globe, celestial

documentary artifact: globe, terrestrial

documentary artifact: globe, terrestrial: globe, clockwork

documentary artifact: globe, terrestrial: globe, hand

documentary artifact: postcard

drafting t&e: dividers, proportional

drafting t&e: drawing instrument set

drafting t&e: protractor

drafting t&e: sector

drafting t&e: sector, equatorial

drafting t&e: set square

Drawing instrument set

Dry card compass

Dry compass

elescope

Engravin

Engraving

Engravings

Equinoctial dial

Equinoctial dial box

Equinoctial dial lens

Etching

figure, human: marine

figure, human: rating

Floor globe

Graphometer

Graphometer case

Graphometer part

Gunner's callipers

Gyroscopic horizon

Hand globe

Hand globe case base

Hand globe case lid

Horizontal dial

Inclining dial

Jug

Lantern

Level

light, catadioptric

lighting device: light, catadioptric(optic with clock mechanism, 2nd order)

Liquid compass

Liquid compass - aircraft

Liquid compass - aircraft or small craft

Liquid compass and binnacle

Liquid compass card

Liquid overhead compass

Liquid overhead compass - aircraft

Lunarium

Mainspring

Map

MAP-SHEET

Masthead lamp

Measuring rule

Medal

Medal box base

Medal box lid

Medal cast

Mercury barometer

meteorological t&e: barometer, mercury(marine stick cistern barometer)

meteorological t&e: thermometer

Miniature: Legion of Honour, 3rd class

Miniature globe

Miniature medal

musical t&e, ship's: piano

Non-achromatic telescope

optical t&e: binoculars

optical t&e: lamp, carbon arc

optical t&e: telescope

Order

order, Spanish: Naval Merit, Order of: 2nd Class

Order Case

original art: engraving ?

original art: sculpture: bust

Pail

Pail and lid

Pail lid

Pail with lid

personal gear: frames, spectacle

personal symbol: coat of arms

Photograph album

Photograph print

Piano

Plan

Plate

Pocket watch

Pocket watch movement

Pointer

Portable telescope

Position plotter

Prismatic alidade

Prismatic alidade box

Prismatic alidade rod

Prize medal

Proportional dividers

Protractor

Protractor case

Quintant

quintant

Rangefinder telescope

Recipiangle

Reflecting Circle

Repeating circle

Repeating verge watch

Rod

Rojas dial

Roll film negative

Saucer

Sector

Set square

Sextant

Sextant with Artificial Horizon

Sheet film negative

Siderometer

Siderometer dial glass plate

Sight, Azimuth

Signalling lamp

Small-Sword

Spectacle frames

Spirit measure

Star

Starboard lamp

Support bracket

Support bracket - aircraft compass

surveying & navigational t&e: alidade

surveying & navigational t&e: alidade, prismatic(for use with colongue deflector)

surveying & navigational t&e: bearing plate

surveying & navigational t&e: bracket, support(aircraft compass)

surveying & navigational t&e: card, compass: compass, dry

surveying & navigational t&e: card, compass: compass, liquid

surveying & navigational t&e: circle, reflecting

surveying & navigational t&e: circumferentor

surveying & navigational t&e: compass, aircraft: compass, liquid

surveying & navigational t&e: compass, aircraft: compass, liquid overhead

surveying & navigational t&e: compass, dry card(colongue deflector and inclination)

surveying & navigational t&e: compass, dry card: compass, Colombel

surveying & navigational t&e: compass, liquid

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: graphometer

surveying & navigational t&e: level

surveying & navigational t&e: meter, distance

surveying & navigational t&e: plotting instrument: plotter, position(lunar distance)

surveying & navigational t&e: recipiangle

surveying & navigational t&e: sextant

surveying & navigational t&e: sextant, surveyor's

surveying & navigational t&e: sight, azimuth

surveying & navigational t&e: sundial & compass, pocket

surveying & navigational t&e: trigometer

Surveyor's Quintant

Sword

Table globe

Tables

Technical drawing

Telegraph dial

Telescope

Telescope box

Telescope canvas bag

Thermometer

timekeeper: clock

timekeeper: clock, globe

timekeeper: dial, clock

timekeeper: movement, verge repeater

timekeeper: movement, watch

timekeeper: timekeeper, sidereal

timekeeper: watch, pocket

timekeeper: watch, repeating verge

timekeeping t&e: dial

timekeeping t&e: dial(compass)

timekeeping t&e: dial, fixed: time gun

timekeeping t&e: dial, portable: dial, analemmatic

timekeeping t&e: dial, portable: dial, astronomical ring

timekeeping t&e: dial, portable: dial, Augsburg

timekeeping t&e: dial, portable: dial, Augsburg(Augsburg)

timekeeping t&e: dial, portable: dial, Butterfield

timekeeping t&e: dial, portable: dial, horizontal

timekeeping t&e: dial, portable: dial, pillar

timekeeping t&e: dial, portable: dial, universal equinoctial

timekeeping t&e: dial, portable: dial, universal equinoctial ring

timekeeping t&e: dial, portable: dial, universal time computing

Trigometer

Trigometer case

Universal equinoctial dial

Universal equinoctial ring dial

visual communication t&e: lamp, masthead

visual communication t&e: lamp, signalling

visual communication t&e: lamp, starboard

visual communication t&e: lantern, not under command

Watch

water transport: fighting vessel (French)

water transport: fighting vessel: frigate (French)

water transport accessory: dial, telegraph

weights & measures t&e: measure, spirit(centilitre)

Winding key

Materials

alloy, aluminium

aluminium

aluminium?

bloodstone

blued-steel

blueprint

boxwood

brass

Brass

bronze

canvas

card

card (mount)

cardboard

cellulose nitrate lacquer

Cellulose nitrate negative

cloth

compressed cardboard

copper

copper plate engraved

cord

enamel

enamelled copper plate

enamelled gold

engraving

etching

felt

gilded-leather

gilt

gilt-brass

gilt-copper

gilt brass

gilt metal

glass

gold

gold, enamelled

hand-coloured

hand-coloured lithograph

horn

human hair

ink

inorganic: glass

inorganic: mica

ivory

ivory/bone?

lacquer

laquer

lead

lead?

leather

leather?

lignum vitae

line engraving

linen

Linen

linen-backed paper

liquid

lithograph

lithograph, coloured

lithograph with hand colouring

magnet

magnets

mahogany

marble

metal

metal: brass

metal: copper

metal: enamel

metal: gilded brass

metal: gold

metal: gold, enamel

metal: pewter

metal: silver

metal: silver, enamel

metal: steel

metal: unknown

mica

organic: cardboard

organic: ivory

organic: mother of pearl

organic: paper

organic: silk, watered [ribbon]

organic: textile [ribbon]

organic: tortoiseshell

paint

paper

Paper

papier mache

parchment

pasteboard

photographic reproduction

plaster

plastic?

polished steel

Polyester negative

porcelain

printed paper

rayskin (shagreen)

red velvet

rolled gold and steel

rubber

silk

silver

silvered brass

silver gilt

steel

steel?

stone

string

textile

varnish

Vellum

vellum

velvet

white metal

wood

wood: mahogany

wood: walnut

Display Location

Display - Atlantic Gallery

Display - Nelson, Navy, Nation Gallery

Display - Neptune Court

Display - ROG

Not on display

Creator

A. Stern

Abraham Louis Breguet & Fils

Aldring

Anonymous

APDR

Armand, Jacques Etienne

Arthus Bertrand

Association des Ouvriers en Inst de Precision

Aubin

Aucoe, Georges

Aveline, J A

Bacqueville, A.

Bacqueville, Albert

Baradelle, Nicolas-Alexandre

Baradelle, Nicolas-Eloi

Baradelle, Pere

Barbier

Barbier & Benard Constructions

Basset le jeune

Beauvais, C

Bellin, Jacques Nicolas

Berthoud, Ferdinand

Bertrand, Arthus

Bertrand, Arthus & Beranger

Besançon

Bescanon

Bion, Nicolas

Blondeau, Roch

Bonne, Rigobert

Bonnevie, Claude

Bord

Borde

Bordier-Marcet, Isaac

Bourgoin

Brault, Léon

Breton, Louis Le

Brunet, Roch

Buache, Philippe

Butterfield, Michael

Caille, Nicholas Louis de la

Canivet

Cassini, Jacques Dominique

Cassini de Thury, Cesar-Francois

Chalmandrier, N.

Chambon

Chanlaire, Pierre Grégoire

Chapotot

Chaucard, M.

Chevalier, Victor

Choizy, Jean

Claude Delure

Collet, Timothe

Collin, C. E.

Coutureau, Henri

Cremstorff

d'Anville, Duc

D. & W. Henderson & Company

Danfrie, Philippe

Daziaro

Defehrt

De L'Isle, Guillaume

Delamarche, Charles-Francois

Delisle, Guillaume

Delure, Jean Baptiste Nicolas

Demichel, A.

Denon

Denon, Vivant

Departement de la Marine

Depot de la Guerre

Depot des Cartes et Plans de la Marine

Depot Generale de la Marine

Deroi

Desbruslins, F.

Desnos, Louis Charles

Devambez, André Victor Édouard

Dezauche, J. A.

Dheulland, Guillaume

Doignon, L.

Dresco, L.

Dubois, Charles Adrien

Duboscq, Jules

Dumas-Vorzet, Er.

Dupain

Dupain-Triel fils

Durand

Du Val, Pierre

Engelmann & Cie

Erhard

Esnauts and Rapilly

Fastre aine

Fleuriais, Georges Ernest

Fortin, Jean

Froment

G. Lemaitre

Galle, Andre

Gentot

George, Etienne François

George Philip & Son Ltd

Girard-Aubert

Gosselin

Gregson

Grenier, L.

Grilliet

Guillaume and Adrien Sanson

Hacq, J.M.

Hamon, Pierre

Hardy, Jacques

Hardy, Jean

Haye, Thomas

Helman, Isadore Stanislas

Henri

Henry P. Bird

Hooper, Lieutenant Geoffroy William Winsmore

Houdon, Jean Antoine

Hurlimann Ponthus & Therrode

J. Coefin

Jaillot, Alexis-Hubert

James Dove & Co

Janvier, Sieur Jean

Jecker

Jecker, Francois Antoine

Jeune, Le Roy le

Keller, Francois Antoine Edouard

Krauss

L'ainé, Le Roy

l'Auteur Impasse des Feuillantines

L. Doignon & Malakoff

La Foase, Chatry de La

Lancelot

Langlois, Claude

Langlois, Hyacinthe

Lapie & Picquet

Lapie, Pierre

Lasnier

Lattre

Laureoux, E

Lebas

Lefevre

LeJeune, Fs.

Le Maire, P.

Lemercier

Lenoir

Le Normant

Lepaute, Henry

Lepetit, Albert

LeRoy, Pierre

Librairie Hachette et Cie

Lignieres

Lordelle

Lorieux

Lorieux, Edmond

Lorieux, F

M. le Baron de Mackau

M. W. & Co Ltd

Macquart

Maraldi, Giovanni Domenico

Marine Photo Service

Meadowside Works

Mentelle, Edme

Messier, Charles

Metayer, A.

Meurand, Antoine-Joseph

Mewes, Philippe de

Mondhare et Jean

Monnaie de Paris

Monodep

Morane

Morin, Henri

Mornas, Buy de

Muenier

Naudin

Nicolas-Eloi Baradelle

Nicolas Bion

Nollet, Jean Antoine

Nourry, Jean

Passemant, Claude Siméon

Patron

Paultre, Charles

Perelle, Gabriel

Perica

Phelipeau, Sieur Rene

Pierre

Placide, P

Poirson, Jean Baptiste

Ponthus, P

Pouilly, J.

Prince, Jean Baptiste Le

père, Delmas

Renard, Jules Jean Georges

Richard

Robert, Henry

Romilly

Ross, Andrew

Roy, Julien Le

Rugendas, after J. M.

S. Smith & Son

Salleron, Jules

Samson

Sanson

Sanson, Nicolas

Sanson, S. F.

Sayde

Seguin, J

Service Geographique de l 'Armee

Service Hydrographique de la Marine

Sevin, Pierre

Simonneau

Spitzer Workshop

Stevenson, D. A.

Tardieu, P.F.

Thiout, Antoine

Thoury, Jacques

Unknown

Unknown [French]

Vallardi

Vautont-Choizy, F

Veyrin

Vialar

Vice-Admiral Rosili

Villiers, Alan John

Vinay, E

Vincard

Vion, E

Wild

Places

Germany

Ireland Island North, Sandy's Parish, Bermuda

Kingston Parish

London

Onboard Parma, at sea

Paris

Paris, France

Parkeston

Paros

Partick

Partick, Scotland

Saint George's Parish

Sandy's Parish

Sandy's Parish, Bermuda

Spain

Unknown

Events

Crimean War, 1854-1856

French Revolutionary Wars: Battle of Cape St Vincent, 1797

French Revolutionary Wars: Battle of the Nile, 1798

Napoleonic Wars: Battle of Copenhagen, 1801

Opening of the Argentina-Europe telegraph cable, 1910

War of Jenkins' Ear: Capture of Porto Bello, 1739

World War I, 1914-1918

Vessels

Ajax (1809)

Amphion (1846)

Arrogant (1848)

Blenheim (1813)

Carrere

Cojeul (fl. 1937)

Dragon (1845)

Duke of Wellington (1852)

Edinburgh (1811)

Fairy (1845)

France 1962

Hogue (1811)

Imperieuse (1852)

Kelpie (1871)

La Bonne Fortune (fl. 1937)

Leopard (1850)

Le Touring Club de France (fl. 1937)

Mercury (1962)

Muiron

Parma (1902)

Princess Royal (1853)

Royal George (1827)

Short Type 166, serial numbers 9751 to 9770 (1916)

St Jean D'Acre (1853)

St Louis fl.1708

Tribune (1853)

Exhibition

Enslavement and Resistance

Guiding Lights

Nelson, Navy, Nation

Seduction and Celebrity: The Spectacular Life of Emma Hamilton

The Atlantic: Slavery, Trade, Empire

War and Conflict

People

Academie de Marine

Admiral Fleurias

Alexander Chaumont

Alvaro de Mendana

Bayly, Lewis

Bonaparte, Napoleon

Brahe, Tycho

Briggs, Henry Perronet

British Fleet

Brown, Commodore Charles

Butterfield, Michael

Columbus, Christopher

Compagnie Generale Transatlantique

Cook, James

Cooper, Archibald Frederick

d'Eyncourt, Eustace Henry William Tennyson

Dampier, William

Davies, John

de France, Louis Auguste

Deroi

Duff, Robert

Edward Hawke Locker

Engelmann & Cie

Euler

Fame

Francois II

Garganta, Don Juan Francisco de

Hall, William Reginald

Halley, Edmond

Howe, Richard

Hughes, Cyril

I, Napoleon

Jacobsen, Elisabeth

Jameson, R D

Jean-Francois de La Perouse

Jones, John Paul

Locker, William

Locker-Lampson, Frederick

Locker Family

Magellan, Ferdinand

Maire, Jacob Le

Museum of Science and Industry, Manchester

National Maritime Museum

Nelson, Horatio

Nuyts, Peter

O'Brien, Edward Conor Marshall

Palmer, A. E.

Parry, Lucy

Parry, William

Pedro Fernandez de Quiros

Pelsaert, Francois

Petrus Plancius, Petrus

Retes, Don Francisco Javier Martines de la Vega y

Royal Naval Division

Royal United Service Institution

Rugendas, after J. M.

Samson

Schouten, Willem Cornelissen

Science Museum Group

Scott-Duff, A. A.

Semple, Frederick

Stokes, John Lort

Suckling, Captfl

Tsar Alexander I of Russia

Vancouver, George

Vernon, Edward

Western Telegraph Co

Witt, Gerrit Frederiksz de

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Graphometer case

Baltic Service Group. Saucer, Plate, Tea Cup, Jug. AAA4589

Cup

Plate

Pail lid

Tableau hidrographique qui contient le detail maritime des principaux ports qui se trouvent representes dans la carte de la Manche. Fait d'apres des manuscrits precieux que possede le Ch. de Beaurain. Avec privilege du Roy (Chart)

Jug

Atlantique Nord. Cartes de la direction et de l'intensité probables des vents...avril,mai, juin. (Chart)

Psylescope type (Binoculars strap)

Psylescope type (Binoculars case)

Quintant

Surveyor's Quintant

Prismatic alidade rod

Planisphere pour les distances lunaires (Position plotter)

Gren5B/4 Carte des environs de Commune-Affranchie, ou sont representes les travaux du siege soutenu par cette ville rebelle pendant les mois d'Aout et de Septembre 1793.

Carte des environs de Commune-Affranchie, ou sont representes les travaux du siege soutenu par cette ville rebelle pendant les mois d'Aout et de Septembre 1793. (Chart)

Feuille - VI - 18 Belle - Ille Est. Gravee et imprimee par Erhard Graveur Geographe (Chart)

Carte Reduite de l;Isle d'Aurigni et des Isles et Roches Vorsenes MDCCLVII par M. Bellin (Chart)

Carte Particuliere des costes de Bretagne depuis le Cap de Frehal jusques a Perres & l'Isle Tome (Chart)

Mercury barometer

Thermometer

NMM Site - Images of the Tarbat Ness Lighthouse on display in the NMM, December 2009

Tarbat Ness Light (light, catadioptric)

No 1424 (Watch)

A view of the coastline of Somerset Island, Bermuda (Colour transparency)

An informal group portrait of schoolchildren in Somerset Island, Bermuda (Colour transparency)

Carte universelle du commerce, c'est a dire carte hidrographique, ou sont exactement decrites, les costes des 4 parties du monde, par P.Du-Val Geographe Ordinaire du Roy. 1686. A Paris. Chez l'auteur, en l'Isle du Palais, sur le quay de l'Orloge, au coin de la rue de Harlay. Avec privilege du Roy pour vingt ans. (Chart)

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