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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
Meteorological instruments
Optical equipment
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Aeroplane models
aerospace transport: seaplane, reconnaissance torpedo bomber
Armillary planetarium
astronomical t&e: elliptical plane component: axis
astronomical t&e: orrery
astronomical t&e: planetarium
astronomical t&e: planetarium, armillary
astronomical t&e: planetarium: orrery
astronomical t&e: planetarium: orrery(part)
astronomical t&e: telescope component: mirror, elliptical plane
astronomical t&e: telescope component: mirror, plane
astronomical t&e: tellerium
barrelmaking t&e: plane, topping(cooper's)
B Class
Box
Box, plane-table
Box, table plane
Box for planetarium
Box for planetary models
Cutter
documentary artifact: model, hydroplane
documentary artifact: photonegative, film
documentary artifact: photonegative, glass
documentary artifact: planetimer
documentary artifact: ship plan: body
documentary artifact: ship plan: deck, boat
documentary artifact: ship plan: deck, bridges
documentary artifact: ship plan: deck, flight
documentary artifact: ship plan: deck, flying
documentary artifact: ship plan: deck, forecastle
documentary artifact: ship plan: deck, lower
documentary artifact: ship plan: deck, main
documentary artifact: ship plan: deck, middle
documentary artifact: ship plan: deck, orlop
documentary artifact: ship plan: deck, platform
documentary artifact: ship plan: deck, upper
documentary artifact: ship plan: general arrangement
documentary artifact: ship plan: hold
documentary artifact: ship plan: profile, inboard
documentary artifact: ship plan: profile, inboard(part)
documentary artifact: ship plan: profile, outboard
documentary artifact: ship plan: rig, general arrangement
documentary artifact: ship plan: section
documentary artifact: ship plan: section, aft
documentary artifact: ship plan: section, construction
documentary artifact: ship plan: section, forward
documentary artifact: ship plan: sheer
Dry compass
Four litre Class
general arrangement
Generic aeroplane model
Glass celestial globe with planetarium
Handle for try plane
Historic Photographic Negative
iron, plane
iron blade of a plane
Miniature model
mirror, elliptical plane
model, hydroplane
Model of a planet
moulding plane blade
Mount part
Newtonian secondary mirror
Orrery
Orrery base plate
Outboard profile plan
Part of an orrery
plane
plane, block
plane, bullnose
plane, hollowing
plane, jack
plane, moulding
plane, plough
plane, rabbet
plane, rebate
plane, router
plane, smoothing
plane, topping
plane, try
Plane-table
plane blade
plane iron
plane irons
Planet
plane table
Planetarium
Planetarium, armillary
Planetarium part - mount part
planetarium part - ount part
Planetary models
Planetimer
plane wedge
Racing Hydroplane
Racing Hydroplane; B Class
Racing Hydroplane; Four litre Class
rule, plane-table
Sea Hurricane
section
Sheet film negative
shipbuilding t&e: plane, spar and oar(shipwrights)
surveying & navigational t&e: compass, dry(plane table)
surveying & navigational t&e: rule, plane table
surveying & navigational t&e: table, plane
Table, plane
table plane
Technical drawing
Tellurium
Transparent orrery
Waterline model
Waterline model; Miniature model; Generic aeroplane model
Waterline model; Miniature model; Sea Hurricane
water transport: fighting vessel: battleship
water transport: fighting vessel: seaplane carrier
water transport: fighting vessel: seaplane carrier (HMS)
water transport: recreation vessel: hydroplane, racing
water transport: steam vessel: triple screw
water transport: steam vessel: twin screw
water transport accessory: hydroplane (buoy, fog following)
wedge, plane
woodworking t&e: iron, plane(shipwrights)
woodworking t&e: plane(shipwrights)
woodworking t&e: plane, block(shipwrights)
woodworking t&e: plane, bullnose(shipwrights)
woodworking t&e: plane, hollowing(shipwrights)
woodworking t&e: plane, jack(shipwrights)
woodworking t&e: plane, plough(shipwrights)
woodworking t&e: plane, rabbet(shipwrights)
woodworking t&e: plane, rebate(shipwrights)
woodworking t&e: plane, router(shipwrights)
woodworking t&e: plane, smoothing(shipwrights)
woodworking t&e: plane, try(shipwrights)
woodworking t&e: wedge, plane(shipwrights)
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carvel
colour washes
compressed card
copper plate
copper plate engraved
diazo print
Drafting cloth
engraving
gilt brass
glass
graphite and ink technical drawing
hand-coloured
hand-coloured lithography
ink corrections
iron
ivory
ivory (CITES)
Linen backed paper
mahogany
Mahogany (CITES)
marine-plywood
metal
metal: aluminium
metal: brass
metal: iron
metal: steel
metal: unknown
organic: card
organic: paper
painted
paper
papier mache
plaster
silver
silver/steel dial?
silver halide: gelatine
silver halide: nitrate
speculum metal
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varnish
wood
wood: beech
wood: boxwood
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Adams, George
Addison, John
Anonymous (after Moll)
Bardin
Berry, W J
Cammell Laird & Company Ltd
Casella, Louis
Cooper, Fred
Curzon, Francis Richard Henry Penn
Egan Co
Ferguson, James
George Philip & Son Ltd
Glynne, Richard
Harris, William
Heath, Thomas
Herschel, Caroline Lucretia
Herschel, William
Hockaday, W. T.
Hudson & Son
Hudson, J
I. & H. Sorby
Johann Alexander Herschel
John Moseley and Son
Jones, Samuel
Jones, William
Lacy, W
London, Midland & Scottish Railway Company
Malby & Co
Newton & Son
Primmer and Snook
Russell-Hawkes Co
Salmen
Simmonds, James
Simonds, James
Sorby, I.
Tiffany and Co
Tri-ang
Unknown
Ventnor Boat Works
W. & S. Jones
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Greenwich
Kansas City, Kansas, USA
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Scapa Flow
Sheerness Dockyard
Sheffield
Unknown
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World speed Records, 1937-1938
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Agincourt (1913)
Albatross (1928)
Barham (1914)
Basileus (1932)
Ben-My-Chree (1908)
Blue Ace (fl.1937)
Campania (1893)
Canada (1913)
Hermes (1898)
Miss England III (1932)
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Atlantic Basin Ironworks
Campbell, Donald
Cockatoo Dockyard
Dunn, A. E.
Fairfield Shipbuilding & Engineering Co Ltd
Herschel, William
Hugham, Arthurfl
Johann Alexander Herschel
John Brown & Company
John I. Thornycroft & Co. Ltd
King, C. J.
Martinelli, A. S.
Notley, Harold C.
Royal United Service Institution
Sir W. G. Armstrong, Whitworth & Co. Ltd
Wentworth-Fitzwilliam, Eric Spencer
Wilkins, William
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The Grand Fleet in Scapa Flow (Sheet film negative)
Miss England Iii (1932) (Historic Photographic Negative)
Miss England Iii (1932) (Historic Photographic Negative)
Box for planetarium
Model of a planet
Philip's Complete Wheelwork Orrery (Orrery)
Orrery
Grand Orrery (Orrery)
Plane-table
Orrery base plate
plane
Waterline model; Miniature model; Generic aeroplane model
Orrery
Glass celestial globe with planetarium
Box for planetary models
Armillary planetarium
Box, plane-table
plane iron
iron, plane
wedge, plane
plane iron
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