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Astronomical and navigational instruments
Astronomical and navigational instruments
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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
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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
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Adze
aerospace transport: airship (German)
Astro Compass
Astro Compass - aircraft
Astronomical compendium
Augsburg dial
Azimuth compass
Badge
Butterfield dial
Case
Case base
Chart
Compass
Compass, gyro
Compass and binnacle
Compass card
Compass dial
Control Unit
Control Unit - gyrocompass
Course indicator
Cruciform diptych dial
Dip circle
Dipleidoscope
Diptych dial
documentary artifact: globe, terrestrial
Drawing
Dromoscope
Dry card compass
Dry compass
Equinoctial dial
Floor globe
Fluxgate repeating equipment
Gyrcompass repeater
Gyrocompass
Gyro Compass
Gyrocompass master compass
Gyrocompass repeater
Horizontal dial
Inclining dial
Instruction globe
Insulated compass
Insulating compass
Liquid compass
Liquid compass - aircraft
Liquid compass - aircraft (German airship compass)
Magnetic dial
Map
MAP-SHEET
Mariner's compass
Mechanical equinoctial dial
Medal
Meridional compass
Nocturnal
Octant
personal symbol: coat of arms
Plate, printing
Polyhedral dial
Print
Printing plate
printing t&e: plate, printing(for printing mariners compass cards)
Repeater compass
Scaphe dial
String-gnomon dial
Sundial
surveying & navigational t&e: card, compass
surveying & navigational t&e: card, compass: compass, dry
surveying & navigational t&e: card, compass: compass, liquid
surveying & navigational t&e: circle, dip
surveying & navigational t&e: compass, aircraft: compass, liquid
surveying & navigational t&e: compass, azimuth
surveying & navigational t&e: compass, dry card
surveying & navigational t&e: compass, gyro: compass, repeater
surveying & navigational t&e: compass, meridional
surveying & navigational t&e: compass, pocket: sundial, pocket
surveying & navigational t&e: compass, variation
surveying & navigational t&e: compass equipment, fluxgate repeating
surveying & navigational t&e: dromoscope(deviation finding device)
surveying & navigational t&e: indicator, course
surveying & navigational t&e: sundial & compass, pocket
surveying & navigational t&e: theodolite(paired pillar frame transit theodolite)
Table globe
Theodolite
timekeeping t&e: dial
timekeeping t&e: dial(compass)
timekeeping t&e: dial(octagonal minute)
timekeeping t&e: dial, astronomical compendium
timekeeping t&e: dial, portable: dial, Augsburg
timekeeping t&e: dial, portable: dial, Augsburg(Augsburg)
timekeeping t&e: dial, portable: dial, Augsburg ring
timekeeping t&e: dial, portable: dial, Butterfield
timekeeping t&e: dial, portable: dial, cruciform
timekeeping t&e: dial, portable: dial, diptych
timekeeping t&e: dial, portable: dial, diptych(diptych)
timekeeping t&e: dial, portable: dial, equinoctial
timekeeping t&e: dial, portable: dial, horizontal
timekeeping t&e: dial, portable: dial, inclining
timekeeping t&e: dial, portable: dial, magnetic
timekeeping t&e: dial, portable: dial, mechanical equinoctial
timekeeping t&e: dial, portable: dial, polyhedral
timekeeping t&e: dial, portable: dial, scaphe
timekeeping t&e: dial, portable: dial, string gnomon
timekeeping t&e: dial, portable: dial, string gnomon horizontal
timekeeping t&e: dial, portable: dial, universal equinoctial
timekeeping t&e: dial, portable: dial, universal equinoctial ring
timekeeping t&e: dial, portable: dial, universal equinoctial ring(English universal)
timekeeping t&e: dial, portable: dipleidoscope
timekeeping t&e: nocturlabe
Toki
Universal equinoctial dial
Universal equinoctial ring dial
Universal equinoctial scaphe dial
Variation compass
Variation compass box
water transport: fighting vessel: 60 gun ship (HMS)
water transport: fighting vessel: aircraft carrier (HMS)
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blue ink, pen and wash on wove paper (verso printed chart fragment)
boxwood
brass
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cloth
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copper plate engraved
cord
ebony
electrical wiring
electric wire
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glass
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iron
ivory
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lead
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leather?
lime wood
Linen
liquid
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magnet
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mercury
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metal: brass
metal: copper
mica
oak
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organic: paper
padouk wood
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papier mache
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plastic
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printed paper
red velvet
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shagreen
silk
silk thread
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silvered-brass
silvered brass
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stone
string
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textile tread
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Display - Pacific Encounters Gallery
Display - Polar Worlds Gallery
Display - ROG
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Admiralty Research Establishment
Anonymous
Armand, Jacques Etienne
Bamberg, Carl
Baradelle, Nicolas-Alexandre
Baradelle, Nicolas-Eloi
Bardin, William
Bendix Aviation Corporation
Bergauer, Michael
Beringer, David
Besançon
Bescanon
Bion, Nicolas
Blachford, M.
Blachford, Robert
Bloud, Charles
Bonnevie, Claude
Boosman, W.
Brenton, Jahleel
Butterfield, Michael
Chapotot
Chesnon, Salomon
Church, William Harvey
Claude Delure
Colbeck, W. R.
Collet, Timothe
Commander Walker
Cook, John Kingsley
Copeland, Richard
Coronelli, Vincenzo
Croisey
Culpeper, Edmund
Danielis, Bernardi
Denham, Henry Mangles
Depot des Cartes et Plans de la Marine
Depot Generale de la Marine
Des Barres, Joseph Frederick Wallet
Dollond & Aitchison
Drury, William O'Brien
Dubois, Charles Adrien
Dudley, Robert
Ebsworth, Richard
Eder, Tobias
Edward John Dent & Co.
Ertel & Sohn
Fowler, John
Frazer, George Alexander
Galle, Phillips
General Electric Company
George Stebbing & Son
Graf, Hans
Gregory, H.
H. & F. Muller
Hager, Wolfgang
Halley, Edmond
Hammond, John
Heath, Thomas
Henry Browne & Son
HM Admiralty
Hobbs, J.S.
Homann, Johann Baptist
Hooke, Robert
Imray, James
Imray, James Frederick
James Imray & Son
Jennings and Company
Jones, Thomas
Karner, Conrad
Karner, Leonhard Andreas
Kelvin & James White Ltd
Kleininger, J.G.
Knight, John
Langlois, Claude
Laurie, Richard Holmes
Lefevre
Lesel, Michael
Luard, W B
Lucini, Antonio Francesco
Lusuerg, Jacob
M., P.
Macquart
Martin, Johann
Mary Rose Trust
Mersey Docks and Harbour Board
Messer, Benjamin
Miller, Lienhart
Miller, Nicolaus
Moriarty, Henry Augustus
Mount & Page
Norie, John William
Nourry, Jean
Outdoor Supply Co. Inc
Parkinson, R K
Passemant, Claude Siméon
Paugger
Poppel, M. F.
Porter, Eustace W.
Purdy, John
Ramsden, Jesse
Reichs-Marine-AMT
Reinman, Hieronymus
Robinson, C. G.
Roettier, John
Rousseau
Rowley, John
Roy, Julien Le
Rugendas, Nikolaus
Sarton, Hubert
Schissler, Junior, Christopher
Schissler, Senior, Christoph
Schrettegger, Johann Nepomuk
Seale, Richard William
Senior, Murdoch Mackenzie
Sevin, Pierre
Sheringham, William Louis
Spence, Graeme
Sperry Gyroscope Co
Sperry Marine Systems
Sproule, George
Staight, Thomas
Stockert, Ernst Christophe
Stradanus, Johannes
the Younger, Hans Troschel,
Thornton, Samuel
Thoury, Jacques
United Kingdom Hydrographic Office (UKHO)
Unknown
Unknown [English]
Vice-Admiral Rosili
Vinch, Cornelio
Vogler, Andreas
Vogler, Johann Georg
Vogler, Johann Michael
Walker, J. & C.
Walker, Ralph
Wangchang, Cao
Willebrand, Johann Martin
Willis, John
Wilson, Charles
Wolfe, James
Wright, Gabriel
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Amsterdam
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Blois
Brentwood
China
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Dieppe
Ellingen, Germany
England
Florence
France
France or Italy
Germany
Glasgow
Innsbruck, Austria
Iran
Italy
Jamaica
Liege
London
Lyons, France
Mangaia, Cook Islands
Naples
New York
Nuremberg
Nuremburg
Paris
Passau, Germany
Ports Down, Hampshire, England
Portsmouth
Portsmouth Dockyard
probably Denmark
probably Germany or France
probably Germany or Italy
Rome
Teterboro
Trieste
Unknown
Venice
Wolfenbuttel, Germany
Wolffenbüttel, Germany
Wu County, Jiangsu Province, China
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Arctic Exploration: Buchan's voyage, 1818
Arctic Exploration: Parry's second voyage, 1821-1823
French Revolutionary Wars: Battle of the Nile, 1798
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Beacon (1823)
Kelpie (1871)
Mary Rose (1509)
Orontes (1870)
Triumph (1944)
Tyne (1826)
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North-West Passage
Ships, Clocks & Stars: The Quest for Longitude
War Artists at Sea
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Alexander Chaumont
Bardin
Boyle, Charles
Butterfield, Michael
Castro, Joao de
Christ's Hospital
Churchill, John
Columbus, Christopher
Cook, James
Dampier, William
Davies, John
Duckworth, John Thomas
Duff, Robert
HM Admiralty
Hudson, Henry
Jean-Francois de La Perouse
Magellan, Ferdinand
Maire, Jacob Le
Milne, Alexander
Nelson, Horatio
Nuyts, Peter
O'Brien, Edward Conor Marshall
Ramsden, Jesse
Roettier, John
Royal Greenwich Observatory
Scott-Duff, A. A.
Thompson, Thomas Boulden
Time Museum
Williams, John
Witt, Gerrit Frederiksz de
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