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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
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De Gomme collection
Des Barres collection
Duckworth collection
Duff collection
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Globes
Globes and globe gores
Goodsall collection
Green Blackwall collection - charts
Henry Newton Stevens Atlantic Neptune collection
Hopton Hall collection
Lockyer collection
Loose maps and charts: general collection
Moriarty collection
Northey collection
Penrose collection
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Portolans and loose charts on vellum
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Artificial horizon
Artificial Mercurial Horizon
astronomical t&e: cosmosphere
astronomical t&e: planisphere
astronomical t&e: telescope, achromatic
Azimuth compass
Barograph
Barometer
Capt. George's Artificial mercurial horizon
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Celestial navigational globe
Celestial navigational globe altitude circle
Celestial navigational globe box
Celestial navigational globe instructions
Celestial navigational globe meridian/altitude circle
Celestial navigational pointer
Chart
Chart rule
Circular protractor
Cosmosphere
data processing t&e: computing instrument, navigational: protractor, messum
data processing t&e: computing instrument, navigational: protractor, sextant(combined sextant & protractor)
Disc
documentary artifact: globe, celestial: globe, star
documentary artifact: globe, terrestrial
Double Box Sextant
Double box sextant box
Double box sextant box strap
double quintant
Double Sounding Quintant
Double sounding quintant adjusting pin
Double sounding quintant box
Double sounding quintant telescope
drafting t&e: drawing instruments
drafting t&e: protractor, circular
drafting t&e: protractor, circular surveyor's(rotating arm)
drafting t&e: rangefinder
drafting t&e: station pointer
drawing instruments
Dry compass
Equinoctial dial
Floor globe
MAP-SHEET
Maximum/minimum thermometer
Messum protractor
Metal framework
meteorological t&e: barometer, aneroid(height indicator)
meteorological t&e: barometer, mercury: barometer, stick(marine barometer, cistern)
Miniature globe
Naval telescope
Navigational globe
Navigational globe box
Night telescope
Octant
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Officer of the Watch telescope
optical t&e: telescope
optical t&e: telescope, night glass: telescope, inverting(non-achromatic)
Pencil
personal gear: goggles, snow
Planisphere
Pocket globe
Pocket Quintant
Pointer
pointer, station
Print
protractor, circular surveyor's
Quintant
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quintant, pocket
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Sextant adjusting pin
Sextant box
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Sextant eyepiece tube
Sextant miscellaneous part
Sextant Protractor
Sextant shaded eyepiece
Sextant Stand
Sextant telescope
Snow goggles
Snow goggles case
Station pointer
Station pointer box
surveying & navigational t&e: artificial horizon
surveying & navigational t&e: card, compass: compass, dry
surveying & navigational t&e: compass, surveying(combined surveying compass, level and inclinometer)
surveying & navigational t&e: compass, surveying: compass, azimuth
surveying & navigational t&e: oceanographic instrument: thermometer, maximum/minimum(black metal case)
surveying & navigational t&e: octant
surveying & navigational t&e: scales, gunter's: chart rule
surveying & navigational t&e: sextant
surveying & navigational t&e: sextant(enlarged form of box sextant)
surveying & navigational t&e: sextant, pocket
surveying & navigational t&e: stand, sextant
surveying & navigational t&e: telescope(officer of the watch)
Surveying compass
Telescope
Theodolite eyepiece
Theodolite plumb bob
Theodolite telescope tub
Theodolite telescope tube
Thermometer
timekeeping t&e: dial, portable: dial, universal equinoctial
Tommy bar
visual communication t&e: code, signal
water transport: exploration/research vessel (HMS)
water transport: passenger vessel: steamer
water transport: research/exploration vessel: discovery vessel
water transport: sailing vessel: schooner
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alloy
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black lacquered brass, with electrum(?) scale
bone or ivory
boxwood
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copper
copper plate engraved
cotton
enamel
engraving
etching
felt/velvet
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organic: tortoiseshell
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wood: ebony
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Alexander, Daniel
Browne, Arthur
Cary
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Cary, J.
Cary, John
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Cary and Porter
Cary Porter Ltd
Cetti, C
Davis, William
Debrett, John
Fielding, I
Fielding, John
George, Christopher
Gosnell, Samuel
James MacGowan & William Davis
John & William Cary
Macgowan, James
Muller, William
Negretti & Zambra
Sewell, John
Stebbing, George
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Williams
Wyatt, S.
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Antarctic Exploration: Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition, 1914-1916
Antarctic Exploration: Mawson's Australasian Antarctic Expedition, 1911-1914
Arctic Exploration: North Pole expedition, Nares, 1875-1876
Nine Years' War: Battle of Barfleur, 1692
Nine Years' War: Battle of La Hougue, 1692
Seven Years' War: Battle of Quiberon Bay, 1759
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Alert (1856)
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Lady of St Kilda fl.1837
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Esdaile, Frank Samuel Drake
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Jean-Francois de La Perouse
Lockyer, Hughes Campbell
Macklin, Alexander Hepburne
Moriarty, Henry Augustus
Nelson, Horatio
Parr, Alfred Arthur Chase
Petrus Plancius, Petrus
Phipps, G. J.
Ross, James Clark
Royal Greenwich Observatory
Stokes, John Lort
Vancouver, George
Watts, Philip
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Celestial navigational globe (Navigational globe)
Pocket globe
Cosmosphere
A MAP of the PRESENT SEAT OF WAR in the Northern Part of FRANCE including the NETHERLANDS Part of GERMANY etc By JOHN CARY engraver Published... by J Cary Engraver Strand July 10 1793 (Chart)
A Moveable Planisphere (Planisphere)
Stick barometer (Barometer)
Naval telescope
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