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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

Popular Astronomy

Sundials

Telescopes

Telescopes at the Royal Observatory Greenwich

Telescopes Online Gallery

The Herschels as experimenters

The Herschels as instrument makers

The many faces of the telescope

Decorative art

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Ceramics

Furniture

Glass

Hope Service

Jewellery

Michael Graham-Stewart collection

Objet d'art

Plate

Sailors' craftwork

Fine art

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4. Astronomy and print

A Sea of Symbols

Captain George Pechell Mends (circa 1814 – 1871)

Caricatures

Foreign Shores

Green Blackwall collection

Herschel family

Lieutenant Gabriel Bray (1750–1823)

Maritime Art Greenwich

Michael Graham-Stewart collection

Miniatures

Nature and National Waters

Nicholas Pocock

Oil paintings

Opium Wars

Patronage, Battles and the Exotic

Popular Astronomy

Prints, drawings and watercolours

Recent acquisitions

Sketchbooks and albums

Telescopes Online Gallery

The Herschels as collectors

The Opium Wars

The Rise of the Seascape

Van de Velde drawings

Polar Equipment and Relics

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A Matter of Life and Death

Franklin relics

North America

Type

Air screw with key head

Aluminium tube

armament, ethnographic: boomerang

armament t&e, edged weapon: arrow

armament t&e, edged weapon: bow

Arrow

Ashtray

astronomical t&e: telescope

astronomical t&e: telescope(astronomical refracting)

astronomical t&e: telescope, achromatic(triple achromatic)

Axe, Ice

Badge: Royal Hanovarian Guelphic Order, 2nd class

Balance

Bandage

Base

bedding: sleeping bag

Block model

Boat compass and binnacle

Boat hook

Bolt, rag ended securing

Boomerang

Boot

Bow

Box

Box base

Box lid

Bracket, lamp

Brass flame ring

building: house, country

Burner cap

Bust

Canvas Bag

ceremonial artifact: flag, sledge

Chair

Clay Pipe

clothing, footwear: boot, sea

clothing, footwear: moccasin

clothing, footwear: shoe, snow

clothing, footwear: shoe, snow(pair)

clothing, outerwear: trousers

clothing, outerwear: waistcoat

clothing, underwear: longjohns

clothing, underwear: vest

clothing accessory: button, specimen

clothing accessory: staybusk

Coat of arms

Compass

compass, boat

Compass and binnacle

Compass in bowl

Compass lid

Conical strut

Container

container: box

Cotton Wool

Cribbage board

Crow's Nest

Cup

Deck watch

Deep sea thermometer

Dip circle

Dipcircle box

Dip circle needle

Dipcircle needle

Dividers

documentary artifact: map

drafting t&e: dividers

drafting t&e: station pointer

Drag, ice

Drawing instrument box

Dry card compass

Dry card compass and box

Dry compass - surveying

Duffle suit coat

Duffle suit trousers

Equipment

Ethnographic boat model

Eyepiece

Face Mask

Facsimile

Farthing

Figure

Figurehead

fishing & trapping t&e: harpoon, whaling

food processing t&e: pan, metal

food processing t&e: pan, stew

food service t&e: fork, table

food service t&e: mug

food service t&e: rations: biscuit, ship's

food service t&e: rations: canister, rum ?

food service t&e: rations: sample, meat

food service t&e: rations: tin, meat

food service t&e: rations: tin, pemmican

food service t&e: spoon, table

Fork

Fox dip circle

Freedom box

Full hull model

Full hull model; Block model

Full hull model; Boat hook

Full hull model; Oar

Full hull model; Sledge

Full hull model; Steering oar

furniture: chair

game: board, cribbage

Geological specimen

Glass bottle

goggles, sledging

Handle ?

harpoon, whaling

household accessory: ashtray

Hydrometer

Ice axe

Ice drag

Ice saw

iceworking t&e: axe, ice

iceworking t&e: knife, snow

iceworking t&e: saw, ice

iceworking t&e: saw, ice(with tripod)

iceworking t&e: saw, snow

Impression

Iron file

Jackstaff

Key

kEY

Lamp

lamp, bracket

land transport: sledge

land transport: sledge(5 man sledge)

land transport accessory: bag, harness

land transport component: runner, sledge

Lead pencil

Leather

Leather washer

Leather washer.

leatherworking t&e: knife, ulu

Lens

Lens cover

Lense cover

lighting device: lamp, bracket

Longjohns

Mapping pen

Marine chronometer

Marine chronometer; Winding key

Marine chronometer case key

Marine chronometer winding key

Mask

Maximum/minimum thermometer

Meat dish

Meat sample

Meat tin

Medal

medal, British: polar medal: Polar Expeditions 1910-36

medal, British: prize medal: Royal Geographical Society Medal for Scott's Antarctic Expedition 1902-1904

medal, British: prize medal: Royal Geographical Society Medal for Shackleton's Antarctic Expedition 1907-1909

Medallion

medical & psychological t&e: chest, medicine

medical & psychological t&e: medical supplies

medical & psychological t&e: tourniquet, surgeon's

medical supplies

Medicine chest

Metal Strip

meteorological t&e: thermometer

Microscope

microscope glass

Microscope lens?

microscope lense?

Moccasin

Model harpoon

Mount

Mug

musical t&e: violin

Naval telescope

Naval telescope objective lens cap

Needle for dip circle

Nut

Oar

optical t&e: microscope

optical t&e: telescope, bridge

Order

Ore sample

original art: model, harpoon

original art: sculpture: bust

Over shoe

Painting

Pan

Pan, Metal

Paper knife

Parallel rule

Peg

Pegs

Pemmican Chopper

Pemmican tin

Penknife

personal gear: axe, ice

personal gear: drag, ice(ice claw)

personal gear: goggles, snow(anti snow blindness shield)

personal gear: shovel, ice

personal gear: smoking gear: pipe, clay

personal symbol: coat of arms

personal symbol: coat of arms, royal

personal symbol: Royal Hanovarian Guelphic Order

Phial

Photograph album

Photographic print

Plaster

Plate

Platform for the dry compass - surveying

Pocket chronometer

Pocket Quintant

Polar bear claw

Polar medal

portrait

presentation artifact: badge, Knight Commander

presentation artifact: box

presentation artifact: box, freedom

presentation artifact: statuette

Primus stove burner

Primus stove part

Prize medal

Prize medal, British: Royal Geographical Society, 1835

Probang

Quintant

quintant, pocket

Quintant telescope

Ration Bag

relic, animal: tusk, narwhal

relic, animal: zoological specimen: beaver, stuffed

relic, animal: zoological specimen: fox, stuffed arctic(arctic fox)

relic, animal: zoological specimen: hare, stuffed arctic

relic, animal: zoological specimen: penguin, stuffed emperor

relic: tripe de roche(gyrophoron hyperborea)

Rigged model

Rigged modelWaterline model

Rope

Rum canister

Sails furled

Saucer

Saw

Scale

Scalpels

Scenic model

Scenic modelWaterline model

Screw

Sea boot

Sextant Stand

Ship's bell

Ship's biscuit

Shoe

Shovel, Ice

Signalling telescope

Sledge

Sledge, Load (display)

Sledge flag

Sledge harness

Sledging Goggles

Sleeping bag

Snow goggles

Snow knife

Snow saw

Snow shoe

Specimen button

Spirit level

Spoon

Stand

Station pointer

Statuette

Staybusk

Steel nut

Steering oar

Stew pan

stove, Primus (part)

stove, Primus (parts)

Stuffed arctic fox

Stuffed arctic hare

Stuffed beaver

Stuffed Emperor Penguin

Surgeon's tourniquet

surveying & navigational t&e: circle, dip

surveying & navigational t&e: compass, dry card

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

surveying & navigational t&e: dip circle, Fox

surveying & navigational t&e: instruments, scientific

surveying & navigational t&e: needle, total force

surveying & navigational t&e: oceanographic instrument: hydrometer(in wooden case)

surveying & navigational t&e: oceanographic instrument: thermometer(in wooden case)

surveying & navigational t&e: oceanographic instrument: thermometer, deep sea(in wooden case)

surveying & navigational t&e: oceanographic instrument: thermometer, maximum/minimum(black metal case)

surveying & navigational t&e: sextant

surveying & navigational t&e: sextant, pocket

surveying & navigational t&e: stand, sextant

surveying & navigational t&e: telescope: transit, portable

surveying & navigational t&e: theodolite

Syringe

Telescope

Telescope tube

Test tube

Theodolite

Theodolite eyepiece

Theodolite plumb bob

Theodolite telescope tub

Theodolite telescope tube

Thermometer

timekeeper: chronometer, marine

timekeeper: chronometer, marine(8 day)

timekeeper: watch, pocket

timekeeping t&e: chronometer, pocket

Tin

Tin box

Tinned pemmican base

Tinned pemmican lid

Token

Topographical model

Topographical modelWaterline model

Total force needle

Total force needles

Tourniquet

Tripe de Roche

Tripod

Trousers

Tureen

Tureen lid

tusk, narwhal

Ulu knife

Vest

Violin

Waistcoat

Washer

Watch

Waterline model

Waterline model; Rigged model; Sails furled

Waterline modelRigged model

water transport: exploration/research vessel

water transport: exploration/research vessel (HMS)

water transport: exploration/research vessel: bomb vessel (HMS)

water transport: exploration/research vessel: yacht

water transport: fighting vessel: bomb vessel (HMS)

water transport: fighting vessel: sloop

water transport: model, exhibition: full hull model(decked)

water transport: model, exhibition: waterline model(decked: equipped: rigged: sails furled: scenic)

water transport: research/exploration vessel: discovery vessel

water transport: research/exploration vessel: survey vessel

water transport: sailing vessel: barque

water transport: sailing vessel: yacht

water transport: service vessel: storeship

water transport: steam vessel: yacht

water transport: unknown function: ship

water transport: unknown function: sloop (HMS)

water transport accessory: bell, ship's

water transport accessory: crow's nest(& section of mast & ladder)

water transport accessory: figurehead(head)

weights & measures t&e: balance(part: beam)

Whaling harpoon

Winding Key

woodworking t&e: saw

Writing pen

written communication t&e: knife, paper

Materials

antler

bird skin

black ink

blued-steel

bone

bone or ivory

brass

Brass

bronze

camphor

canvas

card

chromolithograph, coloured

clay

cloth

cloves oil

coating: lacquer ?

copper

cork

cotton

crocus seed wine

diamond

earthenware

elm

embroidered

enamel

feathers

felt

flesh

gelatin silver print

gilt

gilt brass

glass

gold

hand

hemp

hide

horn

inorganic: glass

inorganic: ore

iron

ivory

laminate

leather

lichen

Linen

linen

liquid

Magnesium Carbonate

mahogany

metal

Metal

metal, gilt

metal: brass

metal: brass, anodised

metal: copper

metal: iron

metal: mercury

metal: silver

metal: steel

metal: tin

metal: unknown

mica

moose skin

moquette

nickel alloy

oil on canvas

oil on millboard

olive oil

organic: canvas

organic: claws

organic: cotton

organic: horn

organic: leather

organic: leather [case]

organic: shell

organic: skin

organic: tusk, narwhal

organic: wool

organic: wool ?

paint

paper

perspex

photographic prints

plaster

plastic

Polyester cotton

presumed to have lead

pulvered ginger root

Pulvered Jalap root (Mexican morning glory)

Pulvered root of Convolvulus Scammonia

pulvered root of Ipecacuanha

rock

rosewood

sealskin

shellac

silk

silver

silver, ?

silver-gilt

silvered brass

sinew

skin

soft wood

steel

strong ammonia solution

synthetic: glass

synthetic: glass [phials]

textile

tin

tincture of pulvered ipecac

tolu tincture

varnish

walrus ivory

walrus tusk

whalebone

wheat flour

wood

wood, hard

wood: elm ?

wood: mahogany

wood: oak

wool

Display Location

Display - Polar Worlds Gallery

Creator

Allen & Hanbury's

Andrieu, Bertrand

Anonymous

Arnold, John Roger

Bayes, Gilbert

Beale & Clove

Beechey, Richard Brydges

British School, 19th century

Brooking, Charles

Burroughs, Wellcome & Co

Carmichael, John Wilson

Cary

Cary, William

Cary Porter Ltd

Chawner, William

Davis, Benjamin

Dent, Edward John

Dexter, Benjamin

Dollond & Aitchison

Dollond, Peter

Dover, A. W.

Eves, Reginald Grenville

Fox, Robert Were

Foy & Gibson Pty Ltd

George, W.

Gillick, Ernest George

Goldner, Stephen

Goldsmiths & Silversmiths Co Ltd

Grant, R.R.

Hawkins, Henry

Henry Barrow & Co

Hicks, G. H.

Hudson & Son

J. Weiss & Son

Jaeger

John Arnold & Son

John Millikin

Kater

Kelvin & James White Ltd

Kok-lee-arng-nŭn

Koon-e-ou-uk

Kost, Leonard

Kovacs

L. H. Hagan & Co

Lucchesi, Andrea Carlo

Mackennal, Edgar Bertram

Marcassus, Jean Pierre Casimir de

McKay, John

Millidge, J.

Moss, Edward Lawton

Musin, Francois Etienne

Negretti & Zambra

Newman, John

Newman, John Frederick

P, T

Parkinson & Frodsham

Potter, John Dennett

Praill, Edward

Relly, Tamsin

Robinson

Robinson, Thomas Charles

Ross Ltd

Shackleton, Ernest Henry

Skottowe, Charles

Smith, William Thomas

Smyth, William Henry

Solowiej, Danuta

Splashmaps

Starbeck Taxidermy

T. Cooke and Sons Ltd

Tench, Matthew Parker

Thomas Mercer Chronometers

Unknown

Vitringa, Wigerus

W. T. Copeland & Sons Ltd

Ward, Marcus, & Co

Webber, John

Wigfall & Co

Wildman, John Robert

Wilson, Edward Adrian

Wyon, William

Places

Alaska

Australia

Basel

Birmingham

Canada

Chester

City of London

City of Westminster

Disko Island

Edinburgh

England

Falmouth

France

Glasgow

Great Britain

Harrogate, Yorkshire, England

Labrador

Lake Harbour, Baffin Island, Canada; Kimmirut, Qikiqtaaluk, Nunavut, Canada

London

Norway

Nunavut

Oslo

Oxford

Portsmouth Dockyard

Sheffield

Staffordshire

Stoke-on-Trent

Unknown

Events

Antarctic Exploration: Amundsen's Antarctic Expedition, 1910

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: Commonwealth Trans-Antarctic Expedition, 1955-1958

Antarctic Exploration: Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition, 1914-1916

Antarctic Exploration: James Clark Ross's voyage, 1838-1843

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

Antarctic Exploration: Sealing voyage of James Weddell, 1822-1824

Antarctic Exploration: Shackleton's Nimrod Expedition, 1907-1909

Arctic Exploration: Back's voyage, 1833-1835

Arctic Exploration: Back's voyage, 1836-1837

Arctic Exploration: Buchan's voyage, 1818

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's Second Overland Expedition, 1825-1827

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, Schwatka, 1878-1880

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

Arctic Exploration: Parry's first voyage, 1819-1820

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

Arctic Exploration: Ross' second voyage, 1829-1833

Discovery Oceanographic Expedition, 1925-1927

Exploration: Challenger expedition, 1872-1876

Exploration: Cook's Second Voyage, 1772

Exploration: Cook's Third Voyage, 1776

Vessels

Alert (1856)

Assistance (1835)

Beagle (1820)

Beaufoy (1803)

Challenger (1858)

Discovery (1873)

Discovery (1901)

Dorothea fl.1818

Earl of Mar and Kellie (1856)

Endurance (1912)

Enterprise 1848 (HMS)

Erebus (1826)

Fox (1855)

Fury (1814)

Hecla (1815)

Investigator (1848)

Isabel fl.1850

Isabelle fl.1818

James Caird (1916)

Jane

Nimrod fl.1907

Phoenix (1832)

Resolute (purchased 1850)

Resolution (purchased 1771)

Scarborough 1930 (HMS)

Sir Edward Parry fl.1875 (HM Sledge)

Terra Nova 1884

Terra Nova fl.1910

Terror (1813)

Victoria (1875) Sledge

Exhibition

Art for the Nation

Caird Collection

Ministry of Defence Art Collection

Nelson, Navy, Nation

North-West Passage

Palmer Collection

The Art and Science of Exploration, 1768-80

The Atlantic: Slavery, Trade, Empire

Trade and Commerce

Voyagers

People

Alexander McDonald, Alexander

Amundsen, Roald Engelbregt Gravning

Arnold, John Roger

Australian Landscape Touring Exhibition

Back, George

Barrow, John

Beaumont, Lewis Anthony

Bowers, Henry Robertson

British Institution ?

Buchan, David

Caird, James

Co, Hudson Bay

Colbeck, William

Cook, James

Cracroft, Emma

Cracroft, Sophie

Crean, Tom

Crozier, Francis Rawden Moira

Cunningham, William Keating

Dawes, Peter R.

Drake, Paymaster Francis Randall Hugo

Ebierbing, Joseph

Eddy, Edward Carlyn

Fisher, George

Franklin, Jane

Franklin, John

Fuchs, Vivien Ernest

Greenwich Hospital

Hall, Charles Francis

Hamilton, Richard Vesey

HM Admiralty

IBB Solicitors

Inglefield, Edward Augustus

Kallihirua, Erasmus

Kemp, Stanley

King George V

King William IV

Kovacs

Lady Ommanney

Lady Parry

Levick, George Murray

Liverpool City Bacteriologist's Laboratory

Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty

Macklin, Alexander Hepburne

Malcolm, Neil

Markham, Albert Hastings

Markham, Clements Robert

Marshall, Edward Hillis

McClintock, Francis Leopold

McClure, Robert John Le Mesurier

Nares, George Strong

Oates, Lawrence Edward Grace

Ommanney, Erasmus

Parish, Edith M

Parr, Alfred Arthur Chase

Parry, William Edward

Peterson, N. C.

Port of London Authority

Praill, Edward

Quartley, Arthur Lester

Reid, Charles

Ross, Arthur V.

Ross, James Clark

Ross, John

Royal Academy of Arts, London

Royal Geographical Society

Royal United Service Institution

Scott, Robert Falcon

Shackleton, Ernest Henry

Thames Conservancy

The Corporation of Trinity House

W. T. Copeland & Sons Ltd

Weddell, James

Wilson, Edward Adrian

Wisting, Oscar Adolf

Worsley, Frank Arthur

Young, W (RN)

Century

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6th

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8th

9th

10th

11th

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Hudson Bay Company trading token (Token)

Writing pen

Compass lid

Test tube

Glass bottle

Drawing instrument box

Handle ?

Glass bottle

Dip circle needle

Probang

Leather

Test tube

Pemmican tin

Glass bottle

Leather washer

Tin

Primus stove burner

Metal Strip

Full hull model; Oar

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