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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

Charts and maps

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De Gomme collection

Des Barres collection

Duckworth collection

Duff collection

Ericsson collection

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

Type

Adze

aerospace transport: airship (German)

Astro Compass

Astro Compass - aircraft

Astronomical compendium

Augsburg dial

Azimuth compass

Badge

Butterfield dial

Case

Case base

Chart

Chart; Manuscript

Chart; Print

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

Manuscript

Map

MAP-SHEET

Map; Print

Mariner's compass

Mechanical equinoctial dial

Medal

Meridional compass

Nocturnal

Octant

personal symbol: coat of arms

Plate, printing

Polyhedral dial

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)

Materials

alloy

alloy?

aluminium

blue ink, pen and wash on wove paper (verso printed chart fragment)

boxwood

brass

Brass

brass with silver-plate

card

Card

chrome plated metal

cloth

coir

copper

copper plate engraved

cord

ebony

electrical wiring

electric wire

Electric wiring

enamel

engraving

fabric

felt

gilt

gilt-brass

gilt-copper

glass

gold

hand-coloured

hessian?

ink

inorganic: mica

iron

ivory

lacquer

lead

leather

leather?

lime wood

Linen

liquid

liquid in level

magnet

manuscript

mercury

metal

metal: brass

metal: copper

mica

oak

organic: cardboard

organic: paper

padouk wood

paper

Paper

papier mache

pen & ink

plaster

plastic

Plastic

printed paper

red velvet

rubber

shagreen

silk

silk thread

silver

silvered-brass

silvered brass

steel

Steel

steel pin?

stone

string

synthetic: perspex

Textile

textile

textile tread

tin

varnish

velvet

wash

white metal

wood

Display Location

Display - Pacific Encounters Gallery

Display - Polar Worlds Gallery

Display - ROG

Not on display

Creator

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

Places

Amsterdam

Antwerp

Augsburg

Barking

Bavaria, Germany

Berlin

Blois

Brentwood

China

City of London

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

Events

Arctic Exploration: Buchan's voyage, 1818

Arctic Exploration: Parry's second voyage, 1821-1823

French Revolutionary Wars: Battle of the Nile, 1798

Vessels

Beacon (1823)

Kelpie (1871)

Mary Rose (1509)

Orontes (1879)

Triumph (1944)

Tyne (1826)

Exhibition

North-West Passage

Ships, Clocks & Stars: The Quest for Longitude

The Moon

War Artists at Sea

People

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

Century

unknown

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Sound of Mull &c 1:110,000 bar; Tobermory Harbour 1: 25,000 bar (Chart; Print)

Port Antoine island of Lemnos copied from Captn. Copeland, R.N. by H.A. Moriarty 'Tyne' Feby 1838 (Chart; Manuscript)

Liverpool Bay surveyed by the Marine Surveyer of the Mersey Docks and Harbour Board (Chart; Print)

String-gnomon dial

Horizontal dial

Diptych dial

Equinoctial dial

Horizontal dial

Astronomical compendium

Case

Horizontal dial

Lapis Polaris Magnes... (Cosmographer finding longitude by magnetic variation - the magnetic properties of the lodestone, c.1600)

Nova Reperta: Invention of the Compass (Lapis Polaris Magnes) (Print)

Chart of the Caledonian Canal or Inland Navigation from the Eastern to the Western Sea. Eustace W Porter resident engineer and manager Caledonian Canal Office Clachnaharry Inverness 1921 1923 (Chart; Print)

Plan showing the soundings off Langton River entrance surveyed 3rd Feb 1966 by W.R. Colbeck marine surveyer & water bailiff Mersey Docks and Harbour Board (Chart; Print)

Part of Queen's Channel surveyed 9 Mar 1965 by W.R. Colbeck marine surveyer & water bailiff Mersey Docks and Harbour Board (Chart; Print)

Part of Crosby Channel surveyed 20th Dec 1965 by W.R. Colbeck marine surveyer & water bailiff, Mersey Docks and Harbour Board (Chart; Print)

Butterfield dial

Course indicator

River Mersey from Rock Lighthouse to Eastham and Garston 1964 by W.R. Colbeck marine surveyer & water bailiff, Mersey Docks and Harbour Board (Chart; Print)

water, & anchorage on the said coasts, with the setting of the tydes and howers of high water and the variation

Butterfield dial

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