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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

Decorative art

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Ceramics

Furniture

Glass

Jewellery

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

Airship pelorus

Airship pelorus - aircraft

Airship pelorus - aircraft compass

Alarm clock

Analemmatic dial

Aneroid barometer

Aneroid barometer---

Armillary and polyhedral dial

Armillary dial

Armillary equinoctial dial

Armillary equinoctial pedestal dial

Astronomical alarm clock

Astronomical compendium

Astronomical compendium compass

Astronomical compendium day indicator and compass

Astronomical Longcase clock

Astronomical regulator

Augsburg dial

Azimuth compass

Barometer

Binnacle and liquid compass

Box

Cannon dial

Case

Case base

Case lid

Chronometer

chronometer, marine

Chronometer 3157

Clock

clock, longcase

Compass

compass, azimuth

Compass dial

Conical Pendulum clock

Cruciform diptych dial

Deck watch

deck watch

Dieppe magnetic azimuth dial

Diptych dial

Diptych dial box

Document

Dry card compass

electrical & magnetic t&e: dial, magnetic

Equinoctial dial

Gyro compass

Gyrocompass

Horizontal dial

Horizontal pedestal dial

Inclining dial

Lid for the case of the dial

Longcase clock

Long case clock

Longcase Regulator

Magnetic azimuth dial

Magnetic dial

Marine chronometer

Marine timekeeper

Mechanical equinoctial dial

Mechanical log

Meridional compass

meteorological t&e: barometer, aneroid

meteorological t&e: barometer, aneroid: barometer, pocket(in form of watch)

Nocturnal

One day marine timekeeper

one day marine timekeeper.

Painting

Pendant

Pendulum clock

personal symbol: coat of arms

Pocket barometer

Pocket watch

Polaris - Sun Compass

Qibla indicator

Quadrant

Quartz marine chronometer

Regulator, solar/sidereal

Ring dial

Scaphe and horizontal pedestal dial

Scaphe dial

String-gnomon dial

surveying & navigational t&e: compass

surveying & navigational t&e: compass, azimuth

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

surveying & navigational t&e: compass, gyro

surveying & navigational t&e: compass, liquid

surveying & navigational t&e: compass, meridional

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

surveying & navigational t&e: log, mechanical

surveying & navigational t&e: pelorus, airship

surveying & navigational t&e: polaris(sun compass)

surveying & navigational t&e: vertical force instrument

Table globe

timekeeper: chronometer, marine

timekeeper: chronometer, marine(1 day)

timekeeper: chronometer, marine(2 day)

timekeeper: chronometer, marine(8 day)

timekeeper: clock, alarum(8 day astronomical)

timekeeper: clock, long case

timekeeper: clock, regulator

timekeeper: regulator

timekeeper: timekeeper, marine(K2)

timekeeper: watch, pocket

timekeeping t&e: dial

timekeeping t&e: dial(circular)

timekeeping t&e: dial(compass)

timekeeping t&e: dial(compendia)

timekeeping t&e: dial(mechanical)

timekeeping t&e: dial(spherical)

timekeeping t&e: dial, astronomical compendium

timekeeping t&e: dial, fixed: dial, armillary

timekeeping t&e: dial, fixed: dial, armillary garden

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

timekeeping t&e: dial, fixed: magnetic horizontal

timekeeping t&e: dial, fixed: time gun

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

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

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, Augsburg ring

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

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

timekeeping t&e: dial, portable: dial, 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, magnetic azimuth

timekeeping t&e: dial, portable: dial, magnetic azimuth(azimuth)

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

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

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, synchronous

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: dial, vertical

timekeeping t&e: dial, portable: dial, vertical(disc altitude)

timekeeping t&e: dial: barrel, compendium

timekeeping t&e: nocturlabe

timekeeping t&e: nocturnal

Universal equinoctial armillary dial

Universal equinoctial dial

Universal equinoctial ring dial

Universal equinoctial scaphe dial

Vertical disc dial

Vertical Force Instrument

Watch

Watch 'K2'

watch, deck

Watch; Pendant

Watch chain

Watch parts

water transport: fighting vessel: aircraft carrier (HMS)

Materials

alloy

aluminium?

amber

base metal

bell metal

bloodstone

blued-steel

boxwood

brass

Brass, lead, steel, bell metal, oak, lignum vitae, paper

brass and steel

brass with silver-plate

brick

bronze

card

cardboard

cast iron

cloth

coating: enamel

copper

copper alloy

copper plate engraved

cord

diamond

ebony

embossed paper

enamel

enamelled copper plate

felt

gilt-brass

gilt-copper

gilt brass

gilt metal

glass

glit brass

gold

hand-coloured

hessian?

human hair

iron

ivory

ivory (CITES)

jewel

jewels

lacquered boxwood

lead

lead?

leather

leather?

limestone

liquid

liquid in levels

mahogany

marble

mercury

metal

Metal

metal: alloy

metal: brass

metal: brass, anodised

metal: enamel

metal: gilt

metal: silver

metal: steel

metal: white metal

mica

nickel

nickel-silver

oak

Oak

oak, brass/bronze, steel, glass

oil on canvas

padouk wood

paper

paper, ink

plaster

plastic

polished steel

printed paper

rolled gold and steel

rosewood

shark tooth

silk

silver

silver?

silvered brass

stamped

steel

stone

string

teak

textile

tin

vellum

velvet

white metal

wood

wood(?)

Wood, brass, nickel, steel, aluminium, glass, jewels, textiles, plastic

wood: mahogany

zinc

Display Location

Display - Pacific Encounters Gallery

Display - Polar Worlds Gallery

Display - QH

Display - ROG

Display - Sea Things Gallery

Display - Traders Gallery

Display - Tudor and Stuart Seafarers Gallery

Not on display

Creator

(case maker), AG/GM

Abraham Louis Breguet & Fils

Adams, George

Ainsley, H. R.

Allen, Elias

Anonymous

Armand, Jacques Etienne

Arnold & Dent

Arnold, John Roger

Atkins, Robert Roskell and Brockbank &

Baradelle, Nicolas-Eloi

Barraud, Francis-Gabriel

Barraud and Lund

Bate, Robert Brettell

Bedford, Hilkiah

Beringer, David

Bert, Paul

Bion, Nicolas

Browne, John

Bryer & Sons

Buschmann, Johannes

Butterfield, Michael

Chapman, John

Charles Smith & Son

Chater, Eliezer

Chevalier, Victor

Claude Delure

Cockey, Edward

Cole, Humfrey

Colston, Richard

Cope, Charles John

Culpeper, Edmund

Dahl, Michael

Danielis, Bernardi

Deane, William

Delure, Jean Baptiste Nicolas

Dent, Edward John

Dobbie McInnes Ltd

Dollond & Aitchison

Dover, A. W.

Dubois, Charles Adrien

Ebsworth, Richard

Edward John Dent & Co.

Eggert & Son

Elliott Bros

Elmes, William

F., I.

F., J.

Fang Xiu-Shui

Farquhar

Ferrier, Antoine

Galli, I.

Gallucio, Joanne Paulo

George Philip & Son Ltd

Giamin, Antonius

Gilbert & Sons

Glynne, Richard

Godemars Freres et Capt.

Graf, Hans

Graham, George

Grassl, Lorenz

Graydon, G.

Gregson

Griffin & Adams

Grimalde & Johnson

Guymard, P. I.

Hager, Wolfgang

Hamilton

Hamilton Watch Co

Hatton, James

Hauser, Mathias

Hayes, Walter

Heath & Co. Ltd

Heath, Thomas

Hicks, J.

J. & H. Jump

J. Levenberg & Co.

John Arnold & Son

Johnson, William

Jones, John

Jump, Je H

Kan Yun

Karner, Leonhard Andreas

Kelvin Bottomley & Baird Ltd

Kendall, Larcum

Klieber, Ulrich

Krille, Friedrich Moritz

Kullberg, Victor

Lancaster

Langlois, Claude

Leeming, Edward

Lefevre

Linnell, Joseph

Lordelle

Marke, John

Marshall

Martin, Johann

Metallwarenfabrik

Metz, Coenraad

Meurand, Antoine-Joseph

Mewes, Philippe de

Miller, Jörg

Miller, Nicolaus

Motel, Henri

Muller, Ludovicus Theodatus

Newman, John Frederick

Outdoor Supply Co. Inc

Parsons, William

Paul Beringer

Polanski, Bernard

Poole, James

Poole, John

Poppel, M. F.

Porter, Samuel

Porthouse, Thomas

Proctor, L.

Reid & Auld

Richards (possibly), James

Roskell, Robert

Rousseau

Rugendas, Nikolaus

S., P.

S. G. Brown Ltd

Salzer, Leonard

Samson

Sarton, Hubert

Schissler, Senior, Christoph

Schrettegger, Johann Nepomuk

Sewill, Joseph

Shelton, John

Shortt, William Hamilton

Sinclair, Jas

Smith, James

Solomons & Co

Staight, Thomas

Steward, J. H.

Sully, Henry

Sutton, Henry

Synchronome Co Ltd

T. Cooke and Sons Ltd

T. S. & J. D. Negus

Thomas Taylor

Thomas Walker & Son Ltd

Tompion, Thomas

Tuttell, Thomas

Ulysse Nardin

Unknown

Vogler, Andreas

Vogler, Johann Georg

Vogler, Johann Michael

Walker, Ralph

Webster, Percy

Wells, John

Willebrand, Johann Martin

Willebrand, Johann Matthias

Witham, Nathaniel

Wood, John

Xiu-Shui, Fang

Yang-Qi, Wang

Yun, Kan

Yun, Kang

Zech, Johannes

Places

Altona

Augsburg

Australia

Calcutta

Cardiff,Glamorgan,South, Wales

Charing Cross

Charlton

China

City of London

Continental Europe

Dieppe

Edinburgh

Ellingen, Germany

England

France

Geneva

Germany

Germany (for an English company)

Glasgow

Herzog, Germany

Holborn

Holland

Iran

Italy

Italy or Spain

Jamaica

Japan

Korea

Lancaster, USA

Le Locle

Liege

Liverpool

London

Loughborough

Netherlands

New Eltham

New York

Nuremberg

Paris

Passau, Germany

probably England or Germany

probably Holland

probably Spain

probably Switzerland

Sheffield

Strand

Switzerland

Unknown

Versailles

Vienna

Warminster, Dorset, England

Wolfenbuttel, Germany

Xiuning

York

Events

Arctic Exploration: Franklin's First Overland Expedition, 1819-1822

Transit of Venus, 1874

Vessels

Boreas (1774)

Bounty (purchased 1787)

Triumph (1944)

Exhibition

Samuel Pepys: Plague, Fire, Revolution

Ships, Clocks & Stars: The Quest for Longitude

The Van de Veldes: Greenwich, Art and the Sea

Time and Longitude

Traders: The East India Company and Asia

People

(case maker), AG/GM

Adams, Francis Norris

Austin, C J

Bligh, William

Brummell, George Bryan

Chapman, John

Charles Smith & Son

Crest Nicholson Plc

Deane, William

Digsby

Drake, Francis

Duckworth, John Thomas

Edwards, William

Elbrow, George

Franklin, John

French Ministry of Marine

Griffin & Adams

Hamilton, Emma

Hardy, Pamela

Hardy, Thomas Masterman

Harries, David H.

Hepburn, John

Hood, Reverend D.

Hood, Robert

Jasper, William

Jones, John

Kerr, William

King William IV

Kullberg, Victor

Linnell, Joseph

Lowe, Edward

Marshall

Mercer, Vaudrey

Millar, James

Nelson, Horatia

Nelson, Horatio

Palmer, A. E.

Poole, John

Prince Alfred Ernest Albert, Duke of Edinburgh

Rodney, George Brydges

Royal United Service Institution

Stanhope family

Time Museum

Ulysse Nardin

Wells, John

Williams, William Rowe

Century

unknown

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Augsburg dial

Magnetic dial

Horizontal dial

Compass dial

Augsburg dial

Diptych dial

Vertical disc dial

Compass dial

Augsburg dial

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