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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
Telescopes
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Astronomical regulators and precision clocks
Chronometers, precision watches and timekeepers
Domestic clocks and watches
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Astronomical regulator
astronomical t&e: telescope(equatorial refracting)
astronomical t&e: telescope(refracting)
astronomical t&e: telescope(refractor)
astronomical t&e: telescope component: eyepiece
astronomical t&e: telescope component: mirror, speculum
astronomical t&e: telescope component: stand, astrographic refractor
building: observatory
Bust
Clock
component, telescope
Electrical master clock
Electrical motor clock
Eyepiece
Eyepiece, telescope
Eyepieces
Hand globe
Level
level [part]
Long case clock
Longcase regulator clock
Marine timekeeper
Marine timekeeper 'K1'
measuring machine, photographic plate
Medal
Mercury barometer
meteorological t&e: barometer, mercury
meteorological t&e: gauge, rain
meteorological t&e: thermometer
Micrometer, parts of
Mirror and box
needle, dip circle
Newtonian primary mirror
Octant
original art: watercolour
personal symbol: coat of arms, royal
personal symbol: seal
Planisphere
Planisphere MK.1A
pointer, station
Prize medal
Rain gauge
Rule
Seal
Shortt Free Pendulum System No 16
Shortt master and slave clock system No 16
Slide rule
Station pointer
surveying & navigational t&e: theodolite
Telescope
Telescope mount
Theodolite
Thermometer
Thermometers
timekeeper: clock, long case
timekeeper: clock, long case regulator
timekeeper: clock, master
timekeeper: clock, regulator
timekeeper: regulator
timekeeper: regulator, astronomical
timekeeper: timekeeper, marine(H1)
timekeeper: timekeeper, marine(H2)
timekeeper: timekeeper, marine(H3)
timekeeper: timekeeper, marine(H4)
timekeeper: timekeeper, marine(K1)
Variation compass
Watercolour
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black lacquered brass, with electrum(?) scale
black paint
boxwood, brass
boxwood, brass, paper
boxwood, brass, plastic, paper
brass
brass, glass
brass, glass, ?silver plate
bronze
cast iron
copper
diamond
enamel
glass
gold
green baize
hand-coloured
inorganic: glass
inorganic: plastic, glass
ivory (CITES)
lignum vitae
mahogany
mahogany, brass
mercury
metal
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metal: brass
metal: bronze
oak
organic: leather
organic: watercolour and gouache on paper, brown
paper
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plastic, ?electrum, ?celluloid
ruby
silver
speculum metal
steel
steel pin?
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wood
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Bate, Robert Brettell
Burbidge, Eleanor Margaret
Cary
Cauchoix, Robert -Aglae
Chaplain, J.C.
Cooke, Thomas
Cottingham, E. T.
Cottingham, Edwin Turner
Dallmeyer, J. H.
Edward John Dent & Co.
Grubb, Howard
Grubb, Thomas
Harrison, John
Herschel, William
John Arnold & Son
Kendall, Larcum
Malby & Co
Negretti & Zambra
Ramsden, Jesse
Ransomes & Sims
Riefler, S.
Riefler, Siegmund
Roubiliac, Louis-Francois
Shepherd, Charles
Simms
Synchronome Co Ltd
The British Engraving and Name Plate Manufacturing Co.
Tompion, Thomas
Troughton
Troughton & Simms
unidentified
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W. F. Stanley & Co Ltd
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Barrow-upon-Humber
Dublin
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Captain James Cook's 2nd and 3rd voyages
Carte du Ciel & the Astrographic Catalogue project, 1887-1958
Founding of the Royal Observatory, 1675
Paris International Exhibition, 1900
Transit of Venus, 1874
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Samuel Pepys: Plague, Fire, Revolution
Ships, Clocks & Stars: The Quest for Longitude
Time and Longitude
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Airy, George Biddell
Bate, Robert Brettell
Bradley, Reverend James
Dallmeyer, J. H.
Harrison, John
Herschel, William
Jones, Harold Spencer
King George II
Newbegin, Algenon Montagu
Newton, Isaac
Ramsden, Jesse
Riefler, S.
Royal Greenwich Observatory
Science Museum Group
Sheepshanks, Reverend Richard
Troughton & Simms
Woolley, Richard van der Riet
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Prism from Photographic Zenith Tube (component, telescope)
Component from photographic zenith tube (PZT) (component, telescope)
Prize medal (technical photography): Paris International Exhibition 1900 (Prize medal)
Finderscope (Telescope)
Airy's Dip Instrument : Zenith Point Needle 2 (needle, dip circle)
Slide rule
Theodolite
Slide rule
Theodolite
Sidereal Angle Clock (Clock)
Astronomical regulator
Variation compass
Eyepiece, telescope
measuring machine, photographic plate
Slide rule
The Sheepshanks Thermometers (Thermometers)
Medal commemorating the tricentenary of the Old Royal Observatory, Greenwich, 1975 (Medal)
Bradley's Ivory Rule (Rule)
H2 (Marine timekeeper)
Seal
Astrograph Mark 1A (Planisphere)
Terrestrial hand globe (Hand globe)
Sheepshanks telescope (Telescope)
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