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13 assorted timing weights
Adjusting screw for reflector telescope
Advance / Retard Mechanism
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Assorted timing weights
astronomical t&e: telescope(astronomical reflector)
astronomical t&e: telescope(astronomic reflector)
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Shortt master and slave clock system No 40
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Ships, Clocks & Stars: The Quest for Longitude
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Chart of the north end of Ceylan by P Heywood 1802 and Negapatam Road by Thos George Shortland 1803 (Chart)
North America Bay of Fundy east coast Pubnico to Yarmouth surveyed by Commr PF Shortland 1850-3 (Chart)
North America - East Coast Bay of Fundy to Block Island from the United States Coast Survey to 1886 Grand Manan Island Bank by Captain PF Shortland RN 1862 Bay of Fundy by Captain WFW Owen RN 1848 (Chart)
Hobsons Bay PORT PHILLIP as Surveyed by Mr Frederick Shortland OCTOBER 1836 (Chart)
Manometer
Eyepiece
Adjusting screw for reflector telescope
Adjusting screw for reflector telescope
Eyepiece end
Eyepiece for reflector telescope
Portable reflector telescope (Telescope)
Portable reflector telescope (Telescope)
To the Rt Honble George Lord Anson...this plate...is Dedicated, being an exact view of his Majesty's ship Intrepid, (late the Seriuex one of the six French man of war, taken 3rd May 1747...also a Representation of...King George IId as going on board his Yatch Carolina... (Print)
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