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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
Globes and globe gores
Herschel family
Meteorological instruments
Optical equipment
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De Gomme collection
Des Barres collection
Duckworth collection
Duff collection
Ericsson collection
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
Pirelli collection
Portolans and loose charts on vellum
Printed atlases
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aerospace transport: aircraft
Aircraft compass
Alidade
Alidade box
Alidade box base
Alidade box lid
Alidade eyepiece shade
Alidade eyepiece shade
Alidade prism
Alidade shade
Alidade shadow pin
Base of box for the alidade
Base of case for slide rule
Battery
Bearing plate
Bearing plate alidade
Bearing plate part?
Binnacle Hood
Boat's liquid compass
Boat's Liquid Compass
Box
Box base
Box lid
Bubble Sextant
Bubble sextant
Bubble Sextant battery
Bubble sextant battery
Bubble Sextant battery charger
Bubble Sextant battery charger part
Bubble Sextant box
Bubble sextant box
Bubble Sextant bubble
Bubble Sextant lightbulb
Bubble sextant part
Bubble Sextant reflecting flat
Bubble Sextant reflecting flat?
Bubble Sextant reflecting flat holder
Builder's, Block model
Case for slide rule
ceremonial artifact: ensign, merchant
Chart
Civil ensign
Clamp, Corrector Magnet
Colour transparency
Compass
Compass, Boat's Liquid
Compass bowl
Compass card
Compass Spares
Course indicator - submarine
Cylindrical slide rule
data processing t&e: computing instrument, navigational: computer, electronic
data processing t&e: computing instrument: rule, slide
data processing t&e: rule, cylindrical slide
documentary artifact: card, trade
documentary artifact: ship plan
Domed hood
drafting t&e: set square, marine(protractor set square)
Electronic computer
Engine indicator
Fitting, quadrantal corrector
Full hull model
Full hull model; Rigged model
Full hull model; Rigged model; German naval ensign
Full hull model; Rigged model; Mizzen mast pennant
German naval ensign
Gyrosciopic Sextant
Gyroscipic Sextant
Gyroscopic Sextant
Gyroscopic sextant battery charger
Gyroscopic sextant battery charger part?
Gyroscopic sextant box
Gyroscopic sextant handle
Gyroscopic sextant lightbulb
Gyroscopic sextant shade
Heeling Error Instrument
Lid for the slide rule case
Lid of box for the alidade
Liquid and binnacle
Liquid compass
Liquid compass - aircraft
Liquid compass - aircraft compass
Liquid compass; shade
Liquid compass and binnacle
Liquid compass and binnacle - submarine
MAP-SHEET
Marine chronometer
Marine set square
Mizzen mast pennant
Octant
Octant box
Octant shaded eyepiece
Octant sight tube
Octant telescope
Photo-electric transmitting compass
Photo-electric transmitting compass and binnacle
photograph
Position Plotter
Prism, Alidade
Quadrantal corrector fitting
Quintant
Rigged model
Sextant
Sextant box
Sextant brush
Sextant eyepiece
Sextant Gyro
Sextant lightbulb
Sextant part
Sextant sight tube
Sextant spanner
Sextant telescope
Sextant telescope mounting bracket
shade
Sheet film negative
Slide rule
SOLD Bubble Sextant
surveying & navigational t&e: alidade
surveying & navigational t&e: alidade(Schmalcalder)
surveying & navigational t&e: alidade(schmalcalder type)
surveying & navigational t&e: alidade(telescopic)
surveying & navigational t&e: bearing plate
surveying & navigational t&e: bowl, compass(liquid mariners compass)
surveying & navigational t&e: bowl, liquid compass(for projector compass)
surveying & navigational t&e: card, compass
surveying & navigational t&e: card, compass: compass, dry
surveying & navigational t&e: card, compass: compass, liquid
surveying & navigational t&e: clamp, corrector magnet
surveying & navigational t&e: compass, air
surveying & navigational t&e: compass, aircraft: compass, liquid
surveying & navigational t&e: compass, liquid
surveying & navigational t&e: compass, liquid: compass, photo-electric transmitting
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, liquid(azimuth)
surveying & navigational t&e: compass, mariner's: compass, liquid(E Boat)
surveying & navigational t&e: compass, photo-electric
surveying & navigational t&e: compass spares
surveying & navigational t&e: fitting, quadrantal corrector(compass)
surveying & navigational t&e: heeling error instrument
surveying & navigational t&e: indicator, course(submarine torpedo aiming calculator)
surveying & navigational t&e: octant
surveying & navigational t&e: position plotter
surveying & navigational t&e: prism, alidade(schmalcalder type)
surveying & navigational t&e: sextant
surveying & navigational t&e: sextant, bubble
surveying & navigational t&e: sextant, gyro
Technical drawing
technical drawing
timekeeper: chronometer, marine(2 day)
Trade card
Trommel sextant
water transport: cargo vessel
water transport: fighting vessel: cruiser (German)
water transport: fighting vessel: E-boat
water transport: fighting vessel: U-boat
water transport: model, exhibition: block model(decked: equipped: rigged)
water transport: steam vessel
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alloy
alloy, glass, Bakelite / Phenol Formaldehyde (PF)
aluminium
aluminium?
Bakelite / Phenol Formaldehyde (PF)
bakerlite
black ink
brass
cabling wire
card
card (mount)
cast iron
Cellulose nitrate negative
ceramic
coating: enamel
coating: gilt
coating: varnish
copper
copper alloy
copper wire
cotton
dyeline
electrical wiring
enamel
felt
glass
glass?/ plastic?
inorganic: glass
inorganic: mica
lead
lead?
leather
liquid
machine sewn
magnet
mahogany
metal
metal: alloy
metal: alloy, aluminium
metal: aluminium
metal: brass
metal: brass, anodised
metal: silver
metal confirmed (+brass, glass, mica?, liquid, lead?)
mica
oak
organic: cotton
organic: paper
ozatrace
paint
Paper
paper
perspex
plastic
plastic (safety glass)
plastic, aluminium, rubber
plastic?
Polyester negative
print
printed
rubber
sepia ink
steel
steel?
synthetic: plastic
textile
tracing paper (brittle)
tracing paper (brittle )
white metal
wood
wool
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AEG
Anderson, Johann
Askaniawerke AG
Bamberg, Carl
Bird, Henry P.
Blohm & Voss
Dennert & Pape
Deutsche Dampfschiffahrts-Gesellschaft Hansa
Deutsche Hydrographische Institut
Deutsche Seewarte
Deutsche Werft Aktiengesellschaft
Downie, Thomas
Gath and Peine
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Happel, Eberhard Werner
Hartmann, W.
Hechelmann, Georg
Henry P. Bird
Lattre
L Stern & Co
Maihak, Hugo
Marine Photo Service
Plath, C.
Theodor Zeise
Tietgens, G. Alfred
Unknown
Wempe
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Hamburg
Hamburg, Germany
Hamburg, Hamburg State, Germany
Ulm
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World War II, 1939-1945
World War II: Rheingold-Delhi Action, 1939
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Baltic Arrow (1956)
Bordeaux fl.1945
Delhi (1918)
Dresden (1907)
Drupa (1966)
Endurance (1956)
Grampus (1911)
Nedjed fl.1883-99
Nedlloyd Maretania (1977)
Princess Cecelie 1914
Renate Becker (1955)
Rheingold 1922 [SS]
Strathardle (1967)
Wiking (1973)
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Brooks, Victor Edwin Abraham
Dare, Joseph Stafford
Deutsche Seewarte
Gerber, Rudolf
Hamilton, Louis Henry Keppel
Henry Hughes & Son Limited
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