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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
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4. Astronomy and print
A Sea of Symbols
Captain George Pechell Mends (circa 1814 – 1871)
Caricatures
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Green Blackwall collection
Herschel family
Lieutenant Gabriel Bray (1750–1823)
Maritime Art Greenwich
Michael Graham-Stewart collection
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Adjusting pin
Anemometer
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Artificial Glass Horizon
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Artificial mercurial horizon
Astronomical instrument
astronomical t&e: astronomical instrument
astronomical t&e: telescope, achromatic
Barometer
Bottle, water collecting
Box Sextant
Box sextant
Bushes
Bust
Case for Sextant
Clock
Compass
Course indicator
Course Indicator, Battenberg's
Current Meter
Current meter
data processing t&e: computing instrument: indicator, station speed & distance
deck, poop
Dial clock
documentary artifact: ship plan: body
documentary artifact: ship plan: deck
documentary artifact: ship plan: deck, forecastle
documentary artifact: ship plan: deck, gun
documentary artifact: ship plan: deck, lower
documentary artifact: ship plan: deck, orlop
documentary artifact: ship plan: deck, poop
documentary artifact: ship plan: deck, upper
documentary artifact: ship plan: deck, upper(fore)
documentary artifact: ship plan: hold
documentary artifact: ship plan: profile, inboard
documentary artifact: ship plan: sail
documentary artifact: ship plan: section
documentary artifact: ship plan: section, midship
documentary artifact: ship plan: sheer
documentary artifact: ship plan: shell expansion
documentary artifact: ship plan: watertight compartments, general arrangement
drafting t&e: rule, measuring
drafting t&e: rule, parallel
drafting t&e: station pointer
Drawing
electrical & magnetic t&e: magnetometer
Engine indicator
Eyepiece
Eyepiece section
Forecastle deck plan
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hold
Hood
Inboard profile plan
Indicator, engine
Key
Lid for Sextant
Lower deck plan
Magnetometer
Measuring rule
meteorological t&e: barometer, aneroid
Naval telescope
Night telescope
optical t&e: telescope
original art: sculpture: bust
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Parallel rule
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Quintant
Quintant box
Quintant telescope
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sextant
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sheer
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Station, speed and course indicator
Station, speed and distance indicator
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Sun compass
surveying & navigational t&e: artificial horizon
surveying & navigational t&e: compass
surveying & navigational t&e: compass, sun
surveying & navigational t&e: course indicator, Battenberg's
surveying & navigational t&e: oceanographic instrument: bottle, water collecting
surveying & navigational t&e: oceanographic instrument: meter, current
surveying & navigational t&e: sextant
surveying & navigational t&e: sextant, box
surveying & navigational t&e: sextant: quintant
Suspension spring
Technical drawing
technical drawing
Telescope
timekeeper: clock, dial
Upper deck plan
Wall clock
Water collecting bottle
Water collecting bottle.
watertight compartments, general arrangement
water transport: fighting vessel: 3rd rate
water transport: fighting vessel: 5th rate (HMS)
water transport: fighting vessel: 74 gun ship
water transport: fighting vessel: battleship (HMS)
water transport: fighting vessel: corvette, composite (HMS)
water transport: fighting vessel: corvette, steel (HMS)
water transport: fighting vessel: cutter
water transport: fighting vessel: frigate (France)
water transport: fighting vessel: gunboat (HMS)
water transport: fighting vessel: gunboat, composite (HMS)
water transport: fighting vessel: gunboat, torpedo (HMS)
water transport: fighting vessel: gunvessel, wood (HMS)
water transport: fighting vessel: sloop, composite (HMS)
water transport: service vessel: hulk, sheer
water transport: service vessel: troopship, iron (HMS)
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paper
pen & ink & wash, grey
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Banchatt, E. S.
Brydon, I.
Dollond & Aitchison
Durnford, Elias
Elliot, George
Elliott
Elliott & Fry
Elliott, Edward
Elliott, Frank Westcombe
Elliott, G. E.
Elliott, George E.
Elliott, J.
Elliott, J.H.
Elliott, Thomas
Elliott, William
Elliott and Garrood Ltd
Elliott Bros
F. W. Elliott Ltd
Frasi, F.
George Lee & Son
Green, V
Green, Valentine
James, W
Jefferys, Thomas
Laboratoire Hydrographique
Smyth, Hervey
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William Elliott & Sons
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American War of Independence: Siege of Gibraltar, 1779
Founding of the Royal Observatory, 1675
French Revolutionary Wars, 1792-1802
Transit of Venus, 1874
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Andromeda (1777)
Andromeda (1897)
Arrow (1871)
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Bonetta (1871)
Bristol (1775)
Buzzard (1887)
Carnatic (1783)
Caroline (1882)
Champion (1878)
Cornwallis (1813)
Daphne (1888)
Dolphin (1882)
Dromedary (purchased 1873)
Duncan (1901)
Egmont 1765 [British navy]
Egmont 1768 [HMS]
Frolic (1872)
Gannet (1878)
Goshawk 1872
Grappler 1880
Grasshopper (1887)
Hector (1774)
Pomona (1778)
Pomona 1778 [HMS]
Quail (1830)
Ruby 1776 [British navy]
Sans Pareil (captured 1794)
Semillante (1791)
Southampton 1757
Stirling Castle 1775 [British navy]
Stirling Castle 1775 [HMS]
Sultan (1870)
Thisbe (1783)
Ulysses 1779 [British navy]
Ulysses 1779 [HMS]
Venus (1758)
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Barrow Shipbuilding Co Ltd
Crispin, William
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Edye, John
Fitzclarence, Lord Adolphus
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French Navy
Hawkes, Thomas F.
HM Dockyard, Chatham
HM Dockyard, Sheerness
Howe, Richard
J. and G. Rennie
John Elder & Co
King George III
King George V
King William IV
Malin, Stuart
Ministry of Agriculture & Fisheries Laboratory
Pembroke Dockyard
Prince Alfred Ernest Albert, Duke of Edinburgh
Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh
Raylton Dixon & Co
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Thames Iron Works and Shipbuilding Company
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Darke's Patent High Speed Indicator (Engine indicator)
Richards' improved patent steam-engine indicator (Engine indicator)
Richards' improved patent steam engine indicator (Engine indicator)
Quintant
Mark III (Course Indicator, Battenberg's)
Eyepiece section
Case for Sextant
Parallel rule
Astronomical instrument
Measuring rule
Sextant telescope
Pantograph
Sextant
Shaded eyepiece
Sextant telescope
Quintant box
Station speed & distance indicator
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Sun compass
Telescope
Battenberg's Course Indicator Mark III (Station, speed and distance indicator)
Quintant telescope
Aneroid barometer (Barometer)
Andrew Crommelin (Photographic print)
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