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'View Master' reel, envelope and booklet
Aircraft computer
Artificial Glass Horizon
Astronomical Diagrams
Astronomical regulator
astronomical t&e: planetarium: orrery
astronomical t&e: telescope component: mirror, glass(8.5 inch)
Bathythermograph Grids
Bathythermograph grids
Blank form
Booklet
Bottle
Box of Bathythermograph Grids
Builder's, Full hull model
Button
clothing, outerwear: uniform: coat
Coat
Colour transparency
Compass and binnacle
Compass projector
Course indicator
Creag-Osborne Protractor
Creagh-Osborne protractor
Cutaway model
data processing t&e: computing instrument, navigational: computer, aircraft
Diagram
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documentary artifact: diagram
documentary artifact: drawing, technical
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Dry card compass
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Newtonian primary mirror
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Scissor magnet
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Sheet film negative
Ship's programme
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Submarine liquid compass
Submarine liquid compass and binnacle
surveying & navigational t&e: artificial horizon
surveying & navigational t&e: compass, aircraft: compass, liquid
surveying & navigational t&e: compass, liquid: compass, projector(miniature)
surveying & navigational t&e: compass, mariner's: compass, liquid
surveying & navigational t&e: compass, mariner's: compass, liquid(projector)
surveying & navigational t&e: compass, mariner's: compass, submarine liquid
surveying & navigational t&e: compass, prismatic: compass, dry card
surveying & navigational t&e: indicator, course(course delineator)
surveying & navigational t&e: magnet, scissor
surveying & navigational t&e: station corrector
Technical drawing
Technical Record
Ticket
Timekeeper components
Transparent orrery
View Master reel
Watch
watch
Watch; Pendant
Watch chain
water transport: fighting vessel: submarine
water transport: fishing vessel: dory (Portuguese)
water transport: model, design: full hull model(cutaway: decked: equipped)
water transport: model, exhibition: full hull model(cutaway: decked: equipped: rigged)
water transport: model, exhibition: full hull model(decked: equipped: rigged: sails furled: scenic)
water transport: nuclear-powered vessel: screw, twin
water transport: passenger/cargo vessel
water transport: sailing vessel: dory
water transport: sailing vessel: sailing ship
water transport: sailing vessel: schooner, 4 masted
water transport: service vessel: barge, hopper
water transport: service vessel: factory ship, line fishing (Portuguese)
water transport: service vessel: tanker, fleet replenishment (RFA)
Working, Full hull model
Wristwatch
written communication t&e: pencil, propelling
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Display - Nelson, Navy, Nation Gallery
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Ackermann, Rudolph
Anonymous
Aston & Mander Ltd.
Avery, John
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Bulova
Captain Chetwynd
Clark, T
Deutsche Seewarte
Edward John Dent & Co.
Emslie, John
Everett, (Herbert Barnard) John
Farrar, Austin Packard
G. Felsenthal & Sons
Gheeraerts, Marcus
Gregson
Hardy, Alister
Harling
Heath & Co. Ltd
Henry Browne & Son Ltd
Henry P. Bird
Hicks, J.
Holmes
Hudson & Son
Hudson, J
John Piper Ltd
Johnson Ltd
Kelvin Bottomley & Baird Ltd
Kendall
London Name Plate Manufacturing Co Ltd
Mrs Yates
Orme, Edward
Peacock & Mansfield
Pennington, Robert
Reeves & Son
Reeves & Sons
Reynolds, J
Reynolds, James
Rocks & Co
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Susan Gamble; Michael Wenyon
Trabet, J.
Unknown
W. Ralston & Co
Wyllie, William Lionel
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Arctic Exploration: Franklin Search Expedition, Schwatka, 1878-1880
French Revolutionary Wars: Battle of the Nile, 1798
French Revolutionary Wars: Capture of the Hercule, 1798
Napoleonic Wars: Battle of Trafalgar, 1805
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Argus (1938)
Clarite 1956
Hercule ca.1798 [French navy]
Hercule [French navy]
Lowestoft (1960)
Nedlloyd Maretania (1977)
Orient [French navy]
Port Vindex
St. Bees (1968)
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Royal River: Power, Pageantry and the Thames
The Moon
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Alcock, John
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Bosanquet, Henry Theodore Augustus
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Christ, Jesus
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Devereux, Robert
Hardy, Pamela
Herschel, William
Lloyd's Register of Shipping
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Queen's Watermen
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Thomas and Richard Carpenter
Trabet, J.
Whitbread's
Yarrow & Co Ltd
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Transparent
orrery
Transparent
solar system (Diagram)
Transparent
dome (Digital print)
Transparent
Solar System (Print)
A
Transparent
Print (Print)
Transparent
Chart of the Heavens, for the Latitude of Great Britain (Print)
From the Original
Transparent
Drawing by the Honble Mrs Yates (Print)
Transparent
Diagram of the Phases of the Moon (Print)
The celestial planisphere or
transparent
star director (Planisphere)
Some of blue and
transparent
animals at or near the surface of a tropical ocean (Drawing)
Trade card, watch cases, snuff boxes, and other curious work in gold or enamel'd either
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Thames Barges by D. Weston (Photograph album)
Bulova 'Accutron' tuning-fork wristwatch (Wristwatch)
Durham (1934) (Photograph album)
Pocket bubble sextant ruler
Frederick R. Parker, Naval architect of Warsash, died 1984 (Photograph album)
Port Line propelling pencil (Propelling pencil)
Paddle tug Reliant (1907), Neptune Hall, National Maritime Museum: Dismantling, 17/6-27/9/96 (dates not confirmed) (Photograph album)
Talamba (1924) (Photograph album)
Orcades (1948) (Photograph album)
Paddle tug Reliant (1907), Neptune Hall, National Maritime Museum: Dismantling, 17/6-27/9/96 (dates not confirmed) (Photograph album)
paperweight
'The Mars and the L'Hercule. April 21. 1798' (Print)
Watch; Pendant
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