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Astronomical and navigational instruments
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
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Achromatic telescope
armament accessory: callipers, gunner's
Artificial Mercurial Horizon
astronomical t&e: heliometer(cassegrain reflecting telescope)
astronomical t&e: telescope
astronomical t&e: telescope(astronomical refracting)
astronomical t&e: telescope(refracting)
astronomical t&e: telescope(refracting 30 inch)
astronomical t&e: telescope, achromatic
astronomical t&e: telescope, achromatic(originally achromatic, concave element missing)
astronomical t&e: telescope, achromatic(triple achromatic)
astronomical t&e: telescope, refracting(miniature)
astronomical t&e: telescope, refracting: telescope, achromatic
astronomical t&e: telescope component: object glass
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Base
Binoculars
Binoculars case
Binoculars polishing cloth
Bolt, rag ended securing
Box
Box for barometer
Bracket, lamp
Conical strut
Counterpoise clamp
Day or night telescope
Day or night telescope draw tube
Day telescope
Dip circle
drafting t&e: drawing instrument set
drafting t&e: protractor
drafting t&e: sector
drafting t&e: sector, Zenith (25ft)
Drawing instrument set
elescope
Extendable eyepiece tube
Eyepiece
Eyepiece cover
Eyepiece fragment
Floating compass
Gunner's callipers
Information sheet
Instruction Leaflet
Key for telescope box
Lamp
Lens
Lens cover
Level
Look-out telescope
Lookout telescope
Magnifying glass
Mariner's compass
meteorological t&e: barometer, aneroid: barometer, pocket(in form of watch)
meteorological t&e: barometer, mercury: barometer, stick(marine barometer, cistern. with thermometer)
meteorological t&e: thermometer
meteorological t&e: thermometer, table
Micrometer
Miniature telescope
Mirror
Mount
Mount for barometer
NAV1461
Naval telescope
Naval telescope eyepiece cap
Naval telescope objective lens cap
Night telescope
Object glass cap
Objective glass
Octant
Officer of the Watch telescope
optical t&e: binoculars, galilean
optical t&e: binoculars, prismatic
optical t&e: lens, condenser
optical t&e: telescope
optical t&e: telescope(non-achromatic)
optical t&e: telescope, miniature folding
optical t&e: telescope, spy glass(non-achromatic)
Pamphlet
personal symbol: coat of arms
personal symbol: coat of arms, royal
Pocket barometer
Pocket barometer case
Pocket telescope
Pocket telescope base of case
Pocket telescope eyepiece cap
Pocket telescope eyepiece cover
Pocket telescope lid of case
Pocket telescope objective glass cap
Pocket telescope objective glass cover
Pocket telescope objective lens cap
Pocket telescope objective lens cover
Pocket telescopeobjective lens cover
Polygonal telescope
Portable telescope
Portable telescope eyepiece cap
Portable telescope objective glass cap
Protractor
Reflecting Circle
Reflector piece
Repeating circle
Ring, brass
Rod
Sector
Sextant
Sextant adjusting pin
Sextant box key
Sextant shaded eyepiece
Sextant sight tube
Sextant spare draw tube
Sextant telescope
Sextant telescope eyepiece section
Sextant tommy bar
Slide, dark
Spanner, wing
Spare draw tube with lens
Spare draw tube with lense
Spare telescope draw tube with lens
Spirit level
Spy glass telescope
Spyglass telescope
Steel nut
Stick barometer
surveying & navigational t&e: artificial horizon
surveying & navigational t&e: circle, dip
surveying & navigational t&e: circle, reflecting
surveying & navigational t&e: compass, mariner's(in binnacle)
surveying & navigational t&e: compass, pocket: compass, floating
surveying & navigational t&e: compass, surveying
surveying & navigational t&e: octant
surveying & navigational t&e: octant(with artificial horizon)
surveying & navigational t&e: sextant
surveying & navigational t&e: telescope
surveying & navigational t&e: telescope, transit instrument
surveying & navigational t&e: telescope: transit, portable
surveying & navigational t&e: theodolite
surveying & navigational t&e: theodolite(paired pillar frame transit theodolite)
Surveying compass
Table thermometer
Telescope
Telescope draw tube
Telescope objective cap
Telescope Strap
Theodolite
Thermometer
timekeeping t&e: dial, portable: dial, universal equinoctial
timekeeping t&e: dial, portable: dial, universal equinoctial ring
Tommy bar
Universal equinoctial ring dial
visual communication t&e: code, signal
water transport: exploration/research vessel (HMS)
water transport: fighting vessel: 3rd rate (HMS)
water transport: fighting vessel: battleship (HMS)
weights & measures t&e: telescope component: micrometer
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anodised brass
bakelit
Bakelite / Phenol Formaldehyde (PF)
beech
boxwood
brass
canvas
card
cord
fish skin
glass
gold
horn
inorganic: glass
ivory
leather
mahogany
mahogony
metal
metal: brass
metal: brass, anodised
metal: bronze
metal: silver
metal: silver ?
metal alloy
oak
organic: ivory
organic: leather
organic: shell
paper
pigskin
plastic
rayskin (shagreen)
rope
silk
silver
silvered brass
steel
textile
tortoiseshell
Tortoiseshell (CITES)
vellum
velvet
wood
wood: ebony
wood: mahogany
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Display - Pacific Encounters Gallery
Display - Polar Worlds Gallery
Display - ROG
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Bird, John
Dollond & Aitchison
Dollond, John
Dollond, Peter
Elliott Bros
Haupois, Jean
Lorkin, Thomas
Ramsden, Jesse
Spencer Browning & Rust
Troughton
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Antarctic Exploration: British National Antarctic Expedition, 1901-1904
Arctic Exploration: Buchan's voyage, 1818
Arctic Exploration: Parry's second voyage, 1821-1823
Discovery of radiant heat, 1800
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Camperdown (1885)
Dorothea fl.1818
Fury (1814)
Royal George (1756)
Vanguard (1835)
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North-West Passage
Ships, Clocks & Stars: The Quest for Longitude
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Atkinson, Horatio Nelson
Atkinson, Thomas (master HMS VICTORY)
Atkinson, William George
Back, George
Boys, Henry (RN)
Boys, William H (RN)
Buchan, David
Captain Wilkinson
Crispin, William
Everard, James
Fisher, George
Fitzclarence, Lord Adolphus
Gerrard, William
Griffin, William
Hamilton, Emma
Hand, T. H. H.
Hardy, Pamela
Hardy, Thomas Masterman
Herschel, William
King William IV
Martin, Cornwallis Wykeham
Milne, Alexander
Minet, Isaac
Nelson, Horatio
Parry, William Edward
Peel, William
Pond, John
Reade, Benjamin (Surname could be Peat.
Stokes, John Lort
Tizard, Thomas Henry
Verney, Edmund Hope
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Telescope draw tube
Pocket telescope objective lens cap
Sextant sight tube
Portable telescope eyepiece cap
Sextant sight tube
Pocket telescope eyepiece cap
Sextant shaded eyepiece
Sextant box key
Pocket telescope objective glass cap
Night telescope
Naval telescope
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