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Astronomical and navigational instruments

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2. Astronomy in the lecture theatre

3. Astronomy demonstrated: instruments and models

4. Astronomy and print

Astrolabes and quadrants

Barometers

Celestial navigation

Charting instruments

Compasses

Course, speed and distance indicators

Depth sounding

Electronic navigation

Exploring the Arctic

Franklin relics

Globes

Globes and globe gores

Herschel family

Meteorological instruments

Optical equipment

Ordnance

Popular Astronomy

Prints, drawings and watercolours

Recent acquisitions

Sundials

Telescopes

Telescopes at the Royal Observatory Greenwich

Telescopes Online Gallery

The astronomical telescope

The Herschels as artists

The Herschels as collectors

The Herschels as experimenters

The Herschels as instrument makers

The many faces of the telescope

Food and related equipment

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A Matter of Life and Death

Sailors' craftwork

Polar Equipment and Relics

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A Matter of Life and Death

Charting instruments

Compasses

Exploring the Arctic

Franklin relics

North America

Optical equipment

Routes and Resources

Printed ephemera

Textiles

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2. Astronomy in the lecture theatre

Africa

A Matter of Life and Death

Germany

House flag

Michael Graham-Stewart collection

Popular Astronomy

Prints, drawings and watercolours

Recent acquisitions

Routes and Resources

Sailors' craftwork

Telescopes Online Gallery

Textiles

The astronomical telescope

United Kingdom

Toys, games and music

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Africa

Exploring the Arctic

World Cultures

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Africa

A Matter of Life and Death

Cargo vessels

Fishing and hunting vessels

Franklin relics

Michael Graham-Stewart collection

North America

Pacific

Passenger vessels

Routes and Resources

Sailors' craftwork

South-East Asia

South America

South Asia

Type

7Ship's biscuit

Adze Head

Adze head

Anchor, Ice

Ankle sock

Ankle Sock, pair

Ankle socks

Apparatus, Cooking

Arctic cap

armament t&e, ammunition: canister, explosives

armament t&e, ammunition: flask, powder

armament t&e, ammunition: flask, shot

armament t&e, ammunition: hook, sword belt spring(fragment)

armament t&e, ammunition: shot

armament t&e, edged weapon: arrow

armament t&e, edged weapon: bow

armament t&e, edged weapon: pike head

Arrow

Arrow shaft

Ashtray

Axe

Axe, Ice

Axe handle

Badge: Royal Hanovarian Guelphic Order, 2nd class

Bag

Balaclava

Balance

Ball of wool

Balloon

Barrel hoop fragments

bedding: sleeping bag

Belaying Pin

Belaying pin

Bell Tent

belt, sword spring-hook

Bible

Blanket Square

Block

Block sheave

Boat's thimble

Boat sheet hook

Boat weather-cloth

Boat weather cloth

Bolt

Bone comb

Book

Book Bag

Boot

Boot, inner

Boot, pair

Boot lace

Bootlace

Boots

Boots, Finnesko

Boots, pair

Bottle

Bottle Top

Bow

Bowl

Box

Box, dip circle

Box lid

Bradawl

Brass Fitting

Brass Plate

Brass pocket compass lid

Brass Strip

Brimstone match

Brimstone matches

Bristles

Buckle

building: tent

Button

Buttons

Can

Canister

Canned food

Canteen

Canvas

Canvas cover

Cap band

Case, Document

Certificate Case

Chest Handle

China

Chronometer box

Cigar case

Clasp Knife

Clay Pipe

Clay pipe

Clothes brush

Clothing

clothing, footwear: boot(pair)

clothing, footwear: boot(pair of fur boots)

clothing, footwear: boot, inner(pair of moccasins)

clothing, footwear: shoe(pair)

clothing, footwear: shoe, over(pair)

clothing, footwear: shoe, snow

clothing, footwear: sock(pair)

clothing, headwear: hat

clothing, headwear: helmet

clothing, headwear: helmet, balaclava

clothing, outerwear: gauntlet(pair)

clothing, outerwear: mitten

clothing, outerwear: mitten(pair)

clothing, outerwear: shirt(fragment)

clothing, outerwear: trousers

clothing, outerwear: trousers, overall(snow repellers)

clothing, underwear: vest

clothing: clothing(part) ?

clothing accessory: brush, clothes

clothing accessory: button

clothing accessory: button(2 buttons)

clothing accessory: button(4 buttons)

clothing accessory: button, royal naval

clothing accessory: button, specimen

clothing accessory: gaiter(pair)

clothing accessory: hood, parka

clothing accessory: neckerchief

Coat fragment

Cobbler's awl

Commemorative medal

Compass

Compass Corrector

Cook's Knife

Cooking Apparatus

Cooking apparatus

Copper Plate

Copper plate

Copper Sheathing

Copper sheet fragments

Copper Strip

Copper strip

Cord

Corrector magnet

Cover, Sledge

Crampon

Crampon, pair

Crampons

Crow's Nest

Crow's nest weights

Curtain rod

Deep sea thermometer

Despatch balloon message

Despatch balloon messages

Dessert fork

Dessert spoon

Dip circle

Dip circle (part)

Direction post

Disc

Dish

Dividers

documentary artifact: book

documentary artifact: book, prayer

documentary artifact: case, certificate

documentary artifact: despatch, balloon

Document case

Dog rope

Dog sledge

Dowel

drafting t&e: set, drawing instrument

Drag, ice

Drawing Instrument set

Dried meat

Drinking flask

Drum

Duffle suit

Elm board

Equipment

Explosives canister

Eyebolt shackle

Fabric fragments

Face mask

File

Fingerless gloves

Fish hook

fishing & trapping t&e: hook, fish

Fishing line

Flask, Drinking

Flask, Powder

Flask stopper

Flint & steel

Flint and steel

Folding rule

food service t&e: bowl

food service t&e: canteen

food service t&e: cup, tea(fragment)

food service t&e: flask, drinking(one of a pair)

food service t&e: fork, dessert

food service t&e: fork, table

food service t&e: handle, knife ?

food service t&e: knife, table

food service t&e: ladle

food service t&e: rations: bone, pork(fragment)

food service t&e: spoon

food service t&e: spoon, dessert

food service t&e: spoon, table

food service t&e: spoon, tea

Fork

Gaiter

Gaiter, pair

Gaiters

Gauntlet

Gauntlet, pair

Gauntlets

Geological specimens

Gimlet

Glass

Glass, Medicine

Glass painting

Glove

Gloves

Gold cord

Government paper

Grain, Wheat

Gun-cleaning rod

Gun cleaning rod

Gun cover

Gun mainspring

Gun tampion

Gun tompion

Hammer

Handcuffs

Handle

Harness, sledge

Harness bag, sledge harness, and coil of rope

Hat

Helmet

Helmet, Balaclava

Hide, ox

Hinge

Hip flask

Holder, Signal light

Hone

household accessory: ashtray

household accessory: scissors

Hydrometer

Ice anchor

Ice axe

Ice chisel

Ice crusher

Ice drag

Ice saw

Ice tool

iceworking t&e: knife, snow

iceworking t&e: saw, snow

iceworking t&e: tool, ice

Inner boot

Inner boot, pair

Inner boots

Instructions

Insulating jacket for cooking apparatus

Iron bar

Iron file

Iron fitting

Iron plate

Iron plug

Jackstaff

Keel

Kettle

Knapsack

Knee high sock

Knee high sock, pair

Knee high socks

Knife

Knife, Clasp

Knife, Sheath

Knife blade

Knife clasp

Knife handle

Knife sheath

Label

Ladle

Lance head

land transport: sledge

land transport: sledge (HM)

land transport accessory: boot, ski(pair)

land transport accessory: cover, sledge

land transport accessory: fitting, sail

land transport accessory: harness, sledge(for a man)

land transport component: section, sledge

Lead sheet

Lid

lighting device: box, match

Lock

Longjohns

Map

Mast

Match box

Match tin

Material

Maximum/minimum thermometer

Meat can

Meat sample

Meat tin

Medal

medical & psychological t&e: bottle

Medicine chest

Metal plate

Mitten

Mitten, over

Mitten, pair

Mittens

Model tent

Mug

multiple use artifact: rope

Musket ball

Musket balls

Nail

Naval ensign

Navy sail canvas

Neckerchief

Notice

Oak chock

Oar

optical t&e: eyepiece, telescope

Order

Ore sample

Ore samples

Overall

Overall top

Overall topo

Overall trousers

Overcoat fragments

Over shoe

Over Shoe

Over Shoe, pair

Over shoe, pair

Over shoes

Overshoes

Over trousers

Packet of cartridges

Packet of needles

Packets of cartridges

Paddle

Painted Glass Panels

Pair of boots

Pair of gaiters

Pair of gauntlets

Pair of overshoes

Pair of shoes

Pair of socks

Pan

Pan, Metal

Parka

Parka hood

Pelt

Pemmican Chopper

Pemmican tin

Pencil case

Pen knife

Percussion caps

personal gear: axe, ice

personal gear: goggles, snow

personal gear: goggles, snow(part)

personal gear: hammer

personal gear: knife

personal gear: square, blanket(1 of 5)

personal symbol: broad arrow

personal symbol: crest

personal symbol: seal, admiralty

Pick axe

Pike-head

Pike head

Pipe stem

Plank, Sledge

Plumb Line

Pocket chronometer

Pocket comb

Pocket compass

Pocket watch

Pocket water flask

Poem

Polar bear claws

Pole, Tent

Pork bone

Port-fire

Powder-case lid

Powder case lid

Powder case screw-plug

Powder flask

Powder keg screw-plug

Powder keg screw plug

Prayer book

Pulley

Purse

Pyjama Bottoms

Pyjama Top

Ration Bags

Record tin

Record tin with lid

relic, animal: zoological specimen: pelt(1 of 6)

relic: bar, iron

relic: bolt ?

relic: fitting, iron

relic: plate, copper

relic: strip, copper

relic: timber

Ribbon

Ridge tent

Rivet

Rock sample

Rod, Wooden

Rope

Rope grommet

Rowlock

Royal Naval button

Rum canister

Sail

Sail canvas

Sailcloth

Sail fitting

Sailmaker's palm

Satchel

Saw

Scented soap

Scissors

Scissors, sewing

Sea boot

Seal

Sealing wax

Sealskin suit

Seaman's bag

Set, Drawing Instrument

Sewing set

Sextant eyepieces

Shako plate

Sheet block

Ship's biscuit

Shirt

Shirt fragment

Shoe

Shoe, over

Shoe, over, pair

Shoe heel

Shoes

Shot

Shot bag

Shot charger

Shot flask

Shot in glove fingers

Shovel

Ski boots

Sledge

Sledge cover

Sledge harness

Sledge section

Sleeping bag

Smock

Snow goggles

Snow knife

Snow saw

Snow shoe

Sock

Sock, pair

Socks

Specimen button

Spindle

Spoon

Stuffed arctic fox

surveying & navigational t&e: compass, pocket

surveying & navigational t&e: magnet, corrector ?

Sword belt spring-hook

Sword belt spring hook

sword spring-hook belt

Table spoon

Tablespoon

Teacup fragment

Tea spoon

Telescope draw tube

Telescope eyepiece

Telescope lens

Tent pole

textileworking t&e: needles, packet of

Thermometer

timekeeping t&e: case, watch(fragment)

timekeeping t&e: chronometer, pocket

Tin

toilet article: comb, bone

Trousers

Vest

Watch case

water transport: fighting vessel: bomb vessel

water transport: research/exploration vessel: discovery vessel

water transport: sailing vessel: brig

water transport: service vessel: storeship

water transport: steam vessel: yacht

water transport accessory: board, elm

water transport accessory: canvas, navy sail(fragment)

water transport accessory: nail

water transport accessory: pin, belaying

water transport accessory: thimble, boat's

water transport accessory: toggle, wooden

Wooden toggle

woodworking t&e: dowel

woodworking t&e: file

woodworking t&e: gimlet(common shell gimlet)

written communication t&e: case, pencil

Materials

(possibly: Mercury

(possibly: mercury

animal hair

antler

Arsenic)

arsenic)

asbestos

Bakelite / Phenol Formaldehyde (PF)

base metal

bird skin

bone

brass

bristle

British conifer (pine)

British oak

canvas

caribou (Rangifer tarandus) antler

caribou (Rangifer tarandus) sinew

caribou (Rangifer tarandus) skin

caribou skin

ceramic

cherrywood

china

claws

clay

cloth

coating: enamel

coating: gilt

coating: lacquer ?

copper

copper alloy

cord

cork

cotton

earthenware

ebony

elastic

elm

enamel

fabric

feathers

flesh

flint

gilt

gilt brass

gilt metal

glass

gold

grass

gunpowder

hemp

horn

inorganic: glass

iron

ivory

lace

lacquer

lead

leather

leather (cattle)

leather (lamb)

lichen

limestone

linen

Linen

mahogany

metal

metal (tinned steel?)

metal, copper

metal, gilt

metal: brass

metal: copper

metal: iron

metal: lead

metal: mercury

metal: steel

metal: tin

metal: tin ?

mohair, wool

musk ox (Ovibos moschatus) horn

oak

ore

organic: canvas

organic: cord

organic: cotton

organic: flesh

organic: grain, wheat

organic: hessian

organic: horn

organic: leather

organic: leather, chamois

organic: paper

organic: sealskin

organic: sheepskin

organic: shell

organic: skin

organic: skin, reindeer

organic: suede

organic: tortoiseshell

organic: webbing

organic: wool

paint

paper

phosphorous compound

pine

plastic

porcelain

Pork bone (British)

printed broadsheet

ptarmigan (Lagopus muta or Lagopus lagopus) feather

rock

rope

sealskin

shell

silk

silk ?

silver

silvered brass

sinew

skin

skin, reindeer, ?

soap

spruce

steel

stone

sulphur

synthetic: elastic

synthetic: glass

tar

textile

tin

tin, ?

twine

vellum

velvet

walnut

wheat

white metal

willow

wood

wood: bamboo

wood: lignum vitae, ?

wood: oak

wood: oak ?

wool

Display Location

Display - Atlantic Gallery

Display - Polar Worlds Gallery

Display - Sea Things Gallery

Not on display

Creator

Adams, George

Arnold, John Roger

B. Fellows

Barker, Thomas Jones

Bateman, Hester

Beale & Clove

Bishop, William

Blomfield, Charles James

Boggett & Reynolds

Bombardier

Boulton, Matthew

Briant, H.

British Steel Corp

Browne, William H.

Bryant and May

Burberrys

Burton, H

Cary

Chatterton, Randall

Chawner, William

D. & H. Edwards & Co.

Davis, Benjamin

Davy, Charles

Dexter, Benjamin

E., R.

Eaton, William

Eley, William

Esterbrook, William

F. Barnes & Co

Fearn, William

Ferris, George

Firmin & Sons Limited

Fothergill, John

Foy & Gibson Pty Ltd

G. & J. Hawksley

Gien Faïencerie

Goldner, Stephen

Grant, R.R.

Guest, Thomas & Joseph

Hammond Turner & Dickinson

Hasluck, Thomas H.

Hawksley, C & J W

Hiatt

Hudson & Son

H V

Hynam, J.

I L

Inuit

Inuit ?

IV, John Harris

J. Bagnall & Sons

Jaeger

J H

John & Henry Lias

John Millikin

Kirkman, Kate

Kok-lee-arng-nŭn

Koon-e-ou-uk

Kost, Leonard

Kost, Leonard, & Co

Krabbé, Frederick J.

L. H. Hagan & Co

Low, Josiah

Manfield & Sons Ltd

Marshall, William

Moss, Edward Lawton

Mr Scullard

Negretti & Zambra

Newman, John

Newman, John Frederick

Northcote, Thomas

Parkin, Isaac

Parkinson & Frodsham

Plastic Coatings Ltd

Powell & Co

R., J.

R. Bell & Co Limited

Reynolds & Son Dobbie & Clyde Ltd

Richard Timmins & Sons

Robinson

Robinson, Thomas Charles

S .W. Silver & Co

Savory, Thomas Cox

S B

S C

Shaw & Marshall

Shepherd, George

Shipway, Charles

Smith

Starbeck Taxidermy

Starkey, J S, & Co

S Z

Thomas Ward & Co

Trayes, William

Turcon, C.

Turner, Charles

Unknown

W., R.

Walder, S, Ltd

Wallis, Robert

W D

West, M.

Whiting, John James

Wigfall & Co

Wilson, Edward Adrian

W R

Young

Places

Austria

Basel

Birmingham

Bristol

Canada

City of Westminster

Dublin

East Stead, England

Edinburgh

Exeter

Gien

Great Britain

Greenland

Greenwich

Harrogate, Yorkshire, England

London

Northampton

Norway

Nunavut

Oslo

Portsmouth Dockyard

Sheffield

Strand

Sydney

Unknown

Yeominster, England

Events

Antarctic Exploration: British, Australian, New Zealand Antarctic Research Expedition, 1929-1931

Antarctic Exploration: British Antarctic Expedition, 1910-1913

Antarctic Exploration: British National Antarctic Expedition, 1901-1904

Antarctic Exploration: Mawson's Australasian Antarctic Expedition, 1911-1914

Arctic Exploration: Back's voyage, 1833-1835

Arctic Exploration: Dr John Rae, 1853-1854

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

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

Arctic Exploration: Franklin Search Expedition, Anderson, 1855

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

Arctic Exploration: Franklin Search Expedition, Belcher, 1852-1854

Arctic Exploration: Franklin Search Expedition, Burwash, 1926

Arctic Exploration: Franklin Search Expedition, Collinson, 1850-1855

Arctic Exploration: Franklin Search Expedition, Hall, 1864-1869

Arctic Exploration: Franklin Search Expedition, HMS Plover, 1848-1854

Arctic Exploration: Franklin Search Expedition, Inglefield, 1852

Arctic Exploration: Franklin Search Expedition, McClintock, 1857-1859

Arctic Exploration: Franklin Search Expedition, McClure, 1850-1854

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

Arctic Exploration: Franklin Search Expedition, Ross, 1848-1849

Arctic Exploration: Franklin Search Expedition, Schwatka, 1878-1880

Arctic Exploration: North Pole expedition, Nares, 1875-1876

Arctic Exploration: North Pole expedition, Parry, 1827

Arctic Exploration: Parry's third voyage, 1824-1825

Arctic Exploration: Ross' second voyage, 1829-1833

Arctic Exploration: USS Polaris, 1871-1873

Discovery Oceanographic Expedition, 1925-1927

Fiennes Transglobe Expedition, 1979-1982

Mutiny at the Nore, 1797

Vessels

Alert (1856)

Assistance (1835)

Baretto Junior (1818)

Breadalbane (1843)

Discovery (1873)

Discovery (1901)

Discovery II 1929

Enterprise 1848 (HMS)

Erebus (1826)

Fox (1855)

Fury (1814)

Great Britain (1843)

Hecla (1815)

Intrepid fl.1851 (HMS; of the Tay Whale Fishing Company)

Investigator (1848)

Invincible 1907 (HMS)

Isabel fl.1850

Lady Franklin 1850

Phoenix (1832)

Pioneer fl.1850 (HMS)

Resolute (purchased 1850)

Sir Edward Parry fl.1875 (HM Sledge)

Sophia fl.1850 (HMS)

St Fiorenzo 1794 (HMS)

Terra Nova 1884

Terror (1813)

Exhibition

North-West Passage

People

Alexander McDonald, Alexander

Armitage, Thomas

Back, George

Barrow, John

Beaumont, Lewis Anthony

Belcher, Edward

Bewick, Thomas

Biggs, James

British Antarctic Survey

Burrard-Neale, Harry

Cambridge Scouts, Cambridge Scouts11th/9th

Closson, William

Couch, Edward

Cracroft, Emma

Cracroft, Sophie

Crozier, Francis Rawden Moira

Dawes, Peter R.

Ebierbing, Joseph

Edwards, George

Fairholme, James Walter

Fawckner, William Henry

Fiorini, Giovanni

Forder, William

Fowler, William

Franklin, John

Goodsir, Harry D.S.

Gore, Graham

Greenwich Hospital

Greenwich Hospital Collection

Hall, C Ffl

Hall, Charles Francis

Hamilton, Richard Vesey

Harley, Daniel William, Daniel William

Harrison, Paymaster Edward Newell

Hickey, Cornelius

Hobson, William Robert

Hodgson, George Henry

Hooker, Joseph Dalton

Hornby, Frederick John

Inglefield, Edward Augustus

Irving, John

I W

J O

Jones, William

Kemp, Stanley

Kennedy, William

Kenyon, Walter A.

King George III

Klutschak, Henry

Lady Ommanney

Le Vesconte, Thomas Henry Dundas

Levick, George Murray

Liverpool City Bacteriologist's Laboratory

Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty

Macbean, Gillies Alexander

Mark, William

Markham, Albert Hastings

Marshall, Edward Hillis

Mawson, Douglas

McClintock, Francis Leopold

Miller, Leslie John

Montijo, Eugénie de

Nelson, Horatio

Netchillik, Ookwolik

Ommanney, Erasmus

Osborn, Rear Sherard

Parish, Edith M

Parr, Alfred Arthur Chase

Parry, William Edward

Peddie, John Smart

Peglar, Henry Peter

Penny, William

Petersen, Johan Carl Christian

Peterson, N. C.

Prince Albert, Consort of Queen Victoria

Reed, William

Reid, Charles

Reid, James

Rendell, John

Rhodes, William

Ross, Arthur

Ross, James Clark

Royal United Service Institution

Sargent, Robert Orme

Scott, Kathleen

Scott, Robert Falcon

Scott Polar Research Institute, Cambridge

Shackleton, Ernest Henry

Skelton, Reginald William

Smithsonian Institution

Soutar, William

Stanley, Stephen Samuel

Terry, Thomas

Thomas, Robert

Too-Shoo-art-thar-iu

Voeux, Charles Frederick Des

Wentzell, William

Wilks, Henry

Wilson, Edward Adrian

Wilson, Oriana

Woolley, W P, W P

Wootton, James

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Grain, Wheat

Set, Drawing Instrument

Face mask

Drawing Instrument set

Despatch balloon messages

Christian Melodies (Book)

Instructions for the yeomanry and the volunteers: that are to be stationed on the west side of Temple-Bar, at the funeral ceremony of the late Lord Viscount Nelson on the 9th January, 1806 (Instructions)

Tinned pemmican

Water bottle

Stuffed arctic hare

A cylindrical tinned sheet metal '9 pint' stew pan (Stew pan)

Satchel

Sledge cover

Dividers

Sledge cover

Tripe de Roche

Watch case

Snow goggles

Despatch balloon message (Despatch balloon message)

Rod, Wooden

Snow goggles

Despatch balloon messages

Crampons

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