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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
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Globes and globe gores
Herschel family
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Adjusting pin
aerospace transport: aircraft: flying boat
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Aircraft sextant
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Alidade
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Azimuth angle sight
Azimuth circle
Azimuth Circle
Azimuth compass
barometer, barocyclometer, barocyclonometer
barometer, barocyclonometer
Battery holder
Boat's liquid compass
Boat's liquid compass and binnacle
Bubble Sextant
Bubble sextant, electric
Bubble Sextant lightbulb
Bubble Sextant spare eyepiece unit
Bulbs
case, telescope
Case part
Celestial navigational globe
Celestial navigational globe box
Chart
Coil of wires
Coil of wires - aircraft compass
Colliograph
Compass
Compass, repeater
Compass, repeater - aircraft compass
Compass board part
Compass card
Compass master unit
Compass master unit mount
Converter unit
Converter unit - aircraft compass
data processing t&e: computing instrument: rule, slide
Dial board part
Dip sector
Distance meter
documentary artifact: globe, celestial: globe, star
Double sextant
drafting t&e: rule, parallel
drafting t&e: station pointer
Echo sounder
Eyepiece
gyrocompass
Hood for the miniature master compass
Instrument for Measuring the Dip of the Horizon
Lamp attachment
Lamp attachment - aircraft compass
Liquid compass
Liquid compass - aircraft
Liquid compass - aircraft compass
Liquid compass and binnacle
Liquid compass and binnacle - submarine
mag-gyrocompass
Mag-Gyrocompass - Aircraft Compass
Marine chronometer
Master compass
Master compass and binnacle
Master Unit
Metal framework
meteorological t&e: barometer, aneroid: barometer, barocyclometer
Meter, marine distance
Microphone for echo sounder
Motor
Motor? holder
Naval telescope
Navigational globe
Navigational globe altitude circles
Navigational globe box base
Navigational globe box lid
Navigational globe part
Octant
Octant box
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Parallel rule
Path indicator
Path Indicator
Path indicator and binnacle
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Plotting Grid
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Protractor
Quintant
quintant
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Rangefinder
refracting telescope
Resistance unit
Resistance unit - aircraft compass
Rotary transformer
Rotary transformer - aircraft compass
Sextant
sextant
sextant, bubble
Sextant, electric
Sextant, electric ?
Sextant accessory
Sextant adjusting pin
Sextant box
Sextant box key
Sextant eyepiece
Sextant oil bottle
Sextant shaded eyepiece
Sextant sight tube
Sextant Stand
Sextant telescope
Sight tube
Slide rule
Sounding Quintant
Sounding quintant
Sounding Sextant
sounding sextant
Stand, sextant
Star plotter
Station Pointer
Station pointer
Submarine liquid compass and binnacle
Supply panel
Supply panel - aircraft compass
surveying & navigational t&e: alidade
surveying & navigational t&e: angle sight, azimuth
surveying & navigational t&e: artificial horizon
surveying & navigational t&e: card, compass: compass, dry
surveying & navigational t&e: card, compass: compass, liquid
surveying & navigational t&e: card, spider: compass, liquid
surveying & navigational t&e: circle, azimuth
surveying & navigational t&e: compass
surveying & navigational t&e: compass, aircraft: compass, liquid
surveying & navigational t&e: compass, aircraft: compass, repeater
surveying & navigational t&e: compass, airship: compass, liquid
surveying & navigational t&e: compass, azimuth
surveying & navigational t&e: compass, liquid
surveying & navigational t&e: compass, mag-gyro
surveying & navigational t&e: compass, marching: compass, liquid
surveying & navigational t&e: compass, mariner's: compass, boat's liquid
surveying & navigational t&e: compass, mariner's: compass, liquid
surveying & navigational t&e: compass, mariner's: compass, submarine liquid
surveying & navigational t&e: compass, master(Holmes)
surveying & navigational t&e: compass, small craft: compass, liquid
surveying & navigational t&e: compass, yacht: compass, liquid
surveying & navigational t&e: depth sounding equipment: sounder, echo(Part of equipment)
surveying & navigational t&e: depth sounding equipment: sounder, echo(recording)
surveying & navigational t&e: dip, horizon equipment
surveying & navigational t&e: meter, distance
surveying & navigational t&e: meter, distance(prototype)
surveying & navigational t&e: path indicator(Holmes)
surveying & navigational t&e: plotting instrument: plotter, radio
surveying & navigational t&e: plotting instrument: plotter, star
surveying & navigational t&e: rangefinder
surveying & navigational t&e: sextant
surveying & navigational t&e: sextant(instrument for finding index error)
surveying & navigational t&e: sextant, bubble
surveying & navigational t&e: sextant, paget angle
surveying & navigational t&e: sextant, sounding: sextant, double
surveying & navigational t&e: stand, sextant
surveying & navigational t&e: tele-compass
Surveyor's Sextant
telescope
timekeeper: chronometer, marine(8 day)
water transport: fighting vessel: 4th rate (HMS)
water transport: fighting vessel ?
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Algue, Jose
Blacker, Capt
Clift, E. H.
Creagh-Osborne, F. O.
Earnshaw, Thomas
Field, M B
Henry Hughes & Son Limited
Henry Hughes & Son Ltd
Holmes
Hughes
Kitchin, F A L
Navigators and Engineer Officers Union
Paget
Taylor, Janet
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Alexander, G. H.
Kew Observatory
Kitchin, F A L (Instructor)
Kitchin, F A L (Naval Instructor)
Pemberton, E L
Pilkington, Arthur Redman
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Compass card
Naval telescope
1519 (Marine chronometer)
Celestial navigational globe (Celestial navigational globe)
Celestial navigational globe (Celestial navigational globe box)
Celestial navigational globe (Pointer)
Azimuth circle
Chart of the South Atlantic Ocean Specially prepared for and issued by the Navigators and Engineer Officers Union, 78, Leadenhall Street London, E.C.3, for the use of its Members (Chart)
Telescope case, used as a container for cable charts (case, telescope)
Liquid compass - aircraft compass
Marine Bubble Sextant lightbulb (Bubble Sextant lightbulb)
Marine Bubble Sextant spare eyepiece unit (Bubble Sextant spare eyepiece unit)
Distance meter
Compass card
Rangefinder
Azimuth compass
Celestial navigational globe (Pencil)
Celestial navigational globe (Pencil)
Celestial navigational globe (Navigational globe box lid)
Sextant telescope
Digital Sextant (Sextant telescope)
Octant box
Digital Sextant (Sextant)
Sextant adjusting pin
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