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3. Astronomy demonstrated: instruments and models
Astrolabes and quadrants
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A Matter of Life and Death
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astronomical t&e: telescope(astronomical reflector)
astronomical t&e: telescope, achromatic
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Dessert fork
Dessert spoon
Dividers
documentary artifact: globe, terrestrial: globe, pocket
drafting t&e: compass, sectorial
drafting t&e: drawing instrument set
drafting t&e: sector
Drawing instrument set
Drawing pen
Equinoctial dial
extension piece (for compass/dividers)
food service t&e: fork, dessert
food service t&e: fork, table
food service t&e: ladle, soup
food service t&e: spoon, dessert
food service t&e: spoon, gravy
food service t&e: spoon, mustard
food service t&e: spoon, table
food service t&e: spoon, tea
food service t&e: teaspoon
Fork
Gunner's quadrant
Gunter rule
Ladle
lead holder (for compass)
lead holder (for compass/dividers)
Mariner's compass
medal, British: campaign medal: South Africa medal, 1877-1879
meteorological t&e: thermometer
Octant
Parallel rule
pencil arm (for compass/dividers)
personal symbol: badge, Admiralty
personal symbol: crest
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plane table
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Serving spoon
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surveying & navigational t&e: circumferentor
surveying & navigational t&e: compass
surveying & navigational t&e: compass, azimuth: compass, dry card
surveying & navigational t&e: compass, mariner's
surveying & navigational t&e: compass, steering
surveying & navigational t&e: octant
surveying & navigational t&e: table, plane
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Table spoon
Tablespoon
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timekeeping t&e: dial, portable: dial, universal equinoctial
unidentified part
water transport: research/exploration vessel: discovery vessel
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Adams, George
Adams, George Gammon
Wyon, Leonard Charles
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Arctic Exploration: North Pole expedition, Nares, 1875-1876
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Admiralty pattern soup ladle (Soup ladle)
Terrestrial and celestial pocket globe (Pocket globe)
Dessert spoon
Azimuth compass
Octant
Portable reflector telescope (Telescope)
Equinoctial dial
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Celestial pocket globe (Pocket globe)
Celestial pocket globe (Pocket globe)
pencil arm (for compass/dividers)
pencil arm (for compass/dividers)
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Drawing pen
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lead holder (for compass)
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Silver, fiddle-pattern table fork with Sir John Franklin's crest on the reverse of the handle (Fork)
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Adams's New Patent Portable Telescope (Portable telescope)
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