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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

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

Type

Admiralty model

Album

astronomical t&e: cosmosphere

astronomical t&e: telescope

astronomical t&e: telescope (28ins)

Bigger than life size print of plate 8 found in PBD8139

body

Book

Bound ship plans

Bow model

Box

Builder's, Sectional model

building: observatory

cast: coin cast: Nero, sestertius of, 54-68 AD

ceremonial artifact: Commonwealth Standard

ceremonial artifact: jack

ceremonial artifact: standard

Certificate of registration

Christmas card

Cistern barometer

Coin cast

Component model

Component model; Mast model

Cosmosphere

Cross wire

Cross wire part

CSR board of longitude ledger page 19 titled: Arnold, No.323

Cutaway model

Demonstration model

Design, Half block model

Design model

Direction post

documentary artifact: certificate of registration

documentary artifact: documents, Melotte Collection

documentary artifact: drawing

documentary artifact: lantern slide

documentary artifact: newspaper

documentary artifact: parish register

documentary artifact: photographic reproduction

documentary artifact: photonegative

documentary artifact: photoprint

documentary artifact: phototransparency

documentary artifact: postcard

documentary artifact: poster, packet

documentary artifact: scroll, presentation

documentary artifact: ship plan

documentary artifact: ship plan: body

documentary artifact: ship plan: hold

documentary artifact: ship plan: platform(fore & after)

documentary artifact: telescope component: plate, photographic

Drawing

Embroidered panel for a waistcoat

Engine model

Equipment model

Folder

Foot

Full hull model

Full hull model; Plank-on-frame; Rigged model; Sails set; Shroud; Admiralty model; Demonstration model; Instructional model; Working model

Full hull model; Plank-on-frame; Rigged model; Tiller; Demonstration model; Professionally made model; Working model; Shipbuilders model

Full hull model; Rigged model; Sails furled; Sails set; Demonstration model; Shipbuilders model; Professionally made model; Working model

Full hull model; Rigged model; Sails set

Greenwich Trials

Half block model

Handwritten note

Historic Photographic Negative

Instructional, Picture model

Instructional model

Itinerary

Lantern slide

Lantern slides

Lens cap

Maltese Dghaisa

Manuscript

Marine chronometer

Mast model

Melotte Collection documents

Memo

Menu card

meteorological t&e: barometer, mercury: barometer, cistern(domestic)

Miniature

Negative

Newspaper

Newspaper cutting

original art: drawing

original art:drawing

original art: print

Painting

painting, oil

personal gear: bottle, tear

Photograph

Photograph album

Photographic plate

Photographic print

Photographic reproduction

Photonegative

Photopositive

Photoprint

Phototransparency

Picture model

plan, ship

Plank-on-frame

plans and photographs

Platform

Postcard

Presentation scroll

Professionally made model

Rigged model

Roll film negative

Roman flask

Sails furled

Sails set

Screw

Sectional model

Sectional model; Bow model; Instructional model; Design model; Working model; Shipbuilders model; Tank testing model

Sectional model; Cutaway model; Equipment model; Engine model; Picture model; Demonstration model; Working model; Professionally made model

Shawl

Sheet film negative

Shipbuilders model

Ship equipment model

Shroud

Slide

Solar eclipse official observer card

Tank testing model

Tear bottle

Technical drawing

Throw line

Tiller

timekeeper: chronometer, marine

visual communication t&e: post, direction

Watercolour

Waterline model

water transport: cargo vessel

water transport: cargo vessel: tanker, oil (Japanese)

water transport: fighting vessel: 1st rate (HMS)

water transport: fighting vessel: 6th rate

water transport: fighting vessel: 22 gun ship

water transport: fighting vessel: 100 gun ship (HMS)

water transport: fighting vessel: battleship (HMS)

water transport: fighting vessel: cruiser, light (HMS)

water transport: fighting vessel: frigate (HMS)

water transport: fishing vessel: trawler

water transport: local craft (China)

water transport: model, design: block model(decked: half)

water transport: model, exhibition: full hull model(decked: equipped: rigged: sails furled: sails set: working)

water transport: model, exhibition: full hull model(decked: equipped: rigged: sails set)

water transport: model, exhibition: waterline model(decked: equipped: rigged)

water transport: motor vessel

water transport: motor vessel: diesel

water transport: motor vessel: single screw

water transport: sailing vessel: brig

water transport: sailing vessel: laminer, 2 (computer-controlled: Japanese)

water transport: sailing vessel: ship, 3 masted

water transport: sailing vessel: trawler, Brixham

water transport: service vessel: cable ship (HMCS)

water transport: steam vessel

water transport: steam vessel, paddle

water transport component: bow, bulbous

water transport component: engine, triple expansion (longitudinal)

water transport component: foremast

water transport component: model, design: sectional model(bow)

water transport component: model, exhibition: sectional model(mast)

water transport component: model, instructional: picture model(cutaway: engine: longitudinal: working)

Working model

Materials

albumen silver print

aquatint, coloured

aquatint, hand-coloured

black ink

blue colour wash

blue ink

blueprint

brass

British oak

brown colour wash

card

cardboard

Cellulose nitrate negative

chalk

chromolithograph

coating: varnish

Colour washes

cotton

earthenware

glass

glass.

graphite

Graphite

green ink, with blue, yellow, brown and red colour wash

grey colour wash

hand-coloured

ink

ink technical drawing

inorganic: glass

inorganic: glass, gelatin, silver bromide, paper

linen

linen backed paper

Linen backed paper

mahogany

Manuscript ink

metal

metal: brass

metal: copper

metal: iron

mezzotint, coloured

Natural pigment on fabriano paper

oak

oil on canvas

organic: cardboard

organic: cotton

organic: paper

ozatrace

paint

paper

paper, mounted

papier mache

parchment

perspex

photographic reproduction

plaster

plastic

Polyester negative

printed paper

red ink

red ink, green ink

sepia ink

silk

steel

synthetic: plastic

synthetic: polyurethane foam

textile

tracing paper (brittle)

varnish

watercolour

waxed linen

white ink

wood

wood: mahogany

yellow colour wash

Display Location

Display - Maritime London Gallery

Display - Pirates

Display - Traders Gallery

Not on display

Creator

A. D. Webster

Arnold, John Roger

Austen, Francis B.

Brain, E

Brangwyn, Frank William

Brierly, Oswald Walters

Chinese School, 19th century

Cooper, E.

Crommelin, Andrew

Dallmeyer

Daniell, William

Davidson, Charles

Director of Naval Construction

Dubbels, Hendrik Jacobsz

Duncan, Edward

Evans, Joseph Edward

Francis Frith & Co

Frodsham, Charles

Gore, Charles

H. & T. C. Batchelor

Head, D. De

Hennell, Thomas

Hill, Henry Oliver

HM Admiralty

HM Dockyard, Portsmouth

Huggins, William John

Hulsbergh, H.

Imperial Dry Plate Co Ltd

Jansen

Janssen, J

Jean Paul Gaultier

John & William Cary

John I. Thornycroft & Co. Ltd

Jones, Harold Spencer

Marine Photo Service

Maunder, E. Walter

Millwall Iron Works

Ministry of Defence

Moon, Francis Graham

Muller, William

Nairne, Edward

Norman & Sons Ltd.

Overton, H.

Paterson, D. S.

Paulton & Son

Platt, John

Rolles, A

Sailmaker, Isaac

Saito Designs and Models

Saleh, Shorsh

Salmaker, Isaac

Shoesmith, Kenneth Denton

Stewart Transformers

Terassen, H.

Unknown

Velde, Willem van de, the Elder

Velde, Willem van de, the Younger

Walker, E.

Places

Admiralty House

Chatham Dockyard, Chatham, Medway, England, United Kingdom

Chios

England

Gozo

Greenwich

Hamburg

Khios

London

Nottingham

Portsmouth Dockyard

Southampton

Tokyo

United Kingdom

Unknown

West Kensington

Events

Arctic Exploration: Franklin's Last Expedition, 1845-1848

Arctic Exploration: Franklin Search Expedition, Penny, 1850-1851

First Anglo-Dutch War: Battle of Scheveningen, 1653

Napoleonic Wars: Battle of Trafalgar, 1805

Second Anglo-Dutch War: Battle of Lowestoft, 1665

Second Opium War: Battle of Fatshan Creek, 1857

Third Anglo-Dutch War: Battle of Solebay, 1672

Transit of Venus, 1874

Vessels

Adder (1890)

Aller (1885)

Amphion (1934)

Baltic Arrow (1956)

Banterer (1807)

Cleopatra (1964)

Conqueror (1881)

Cossack (1806)

Coventry (1917)

Crocodile 1806

Cyane (1806)

Daphne (1806)

Dolphyn

Duke of Lancaster (1928)

Eendracht (1666)

Forth (1938)

H.M.S. Duncan

Lady Franklin 1850

Lasso (1938)

Lenox

Leopard

Leopard (1955)

Mohawk (1962)

Otus (1962)

Porcupine 1807

Saale 1886

Sans Pareil (1887)

Shin Aitoku Maru 1980

Sophia fl.1850 (HMS)

Stratheden

Tartar (1960)

Trave 1886

Unidentified Spritsail Barges

Valerian (1923)

Verdala

Victory (1765)

Waterloo (1833)

Westfriesland

Exhibition

Ships, Clocks & Stars: The Quest for Longitude

The Atlantic: Slavery, Trade, Empire

Traders: The East India Company and Asia

Turmoil and Tranquillity

People

Adams, S.

Brooks, Victor Edwin Abraham

Caesar, Nero Claudius Caesar Augustus Germanicus

Chinese School, 19th century

Daniel, Christopher St John Hume

Dyson, Frank Watson

Hayes, Henry

Hennell, Thomas

HM Dockyard, Chatham

HM Dockyard, Portsmouth

Humphrey Tennant & Co

International Association of Cape Horners

J. W. & A. Upham Ltd

Janssen, Pierre Jules Cesar

John I. Thornycroft & Co. Ltd

Keppel, Henry

Maskelyne, Nevil

Melotte, Philibert Jacques

Moore, Henry

Nelson, Horatio

Penny, William

Royal Collection Trust

Royal Netherlands Navy

Royal United Service Institution

Velde, after Willem van de

Velde, Willem van de, the Elder

White Star Line

Century

-1st

0th

1st

17th

18th

19th

20th

21st

unknown

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Negative

Thomson 30" reflector with spectoscope (Photograph)

Photograph

W. M. H. Greaves (Photograph)

Newspaper cutting

Dr. J. Jackson (Photograph)

Whitebait (Newspaper cutting)

H. W. Newton (Photograph)

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