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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
Popular Astronomy
Sundials
Telescopes
Telescopes at the Royal Observatory Greenwich
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The Herschels as experimenters
The Herschels as instrument makers
The many faces of the telescope
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Adaptor, eyepiece
Alidade eyepiece shade
Alidade eyepiece shade
Alidade shade
Altazimuth Eyepiece
astronomical t&e: altazimuth
astronomical t&e: telescope (28 inch)
astronomical t&e: telescope(refracting comet seeking)
astronomical t&e: telescope component: eyepiece
astronomical t&e: telescope component: eyepiece(altazimuth eyepiece)
astronomical t&e: telescope component: eyepiece, divided
astronomical t&e: telescope component: eyepiece, micrometer
astronomical t&e: telescope component: mount, eyepiece
Bed for an eyelet punch
Bed for a punch
Binocular eyepiece
Box for eyepieces
Bubble Sextant spare eyepiece unit
Cabinet contents
Cap?
clothing accessory: ring, scarf(deadeye)
Dead-eye
Dead eye
deadeye
Deadeye model
documentary artifact: splice, eye
documentary artifact: splice, wire
documentary artifact: splice collection
D Shackle with eye
Eclipse eyeshades
Equipment model
Equipment model; Deadeye model
Extendable eyepiece tube
eye
Eyebolt
Eyebolt shackle
eyelet bed
eyelet punch
Eyelet punch
Eyelet punch with bed
eyelets
Eye patch
Eyepiece
Eye piece
Eyepiece, divided
Eyepiece, sextant
Eyepiece and mount
eyepiece Cap
Eyepiece cover
eyepiece for sextant
Eyepiece micrometer
Eyepiece mount
Eyepiece mounts
Eyepiece plugs
eye piece plugs
Eyepieces
Eyepiece with shades
Filar micrometer eyepieces
Filter eyepiece
Flemish eye
Four-stranded rope eye splice
Laboratory spectroscope eyepiece
Laboratory spectroscope eyepiece tube
Laboratory spectroscope tube
Lens/eyepiece cap?
Lense
Lense/eyepiece cap?
Lid of box for the alidade
Lifting eye blank screw
Liquid compass
Liquid compass; Lens/eyepiece cap?
Main eyepiece mount
Micrometer and eyepiece
Micrometer eyepiece
Micrometer eyepiece filter?
Micrometer eyepiece holder?
Micrometer eyepiece mount cap
Micrometer eyepiece mount with eyepiece
Micrometer eyepiece part
Micrometer filter eyepiece?
Midship model
multiple use artifact: punch, eyelet(rigger's tools)
Naval telescope eyepiece cap
Night telescope
Octant shaded eyepiece
Officer of the Watch telescope eyepiece cap
optical t&e: cover, object glass
optical t&e: draw tube, telescope(eyepiece draw tube)
optical t&e: eyepiece, telescope
optical t&e: telescope
personal gear: eye patch
Pocket telescope case eyepiece cap
Pocket telescope eyepiece cap
Pocket telescope eyepiece cap case
Pocket telescope eyepiece cover
Polygonal telescope eyepiece cap
Portable refractor telescope eyepiece
Portable telescope eyepiece cap
Portable telescope eye piece cap
Portable telescope eye piece cover
Prism eyepiece
punch
punch, eyelet
punch, eyelet bed
Quintant eyepiece
Quintant eyepiece section
Quintant shaded eyepiece
Reflecting circle shaded eyepiece
Reflecting circle shaded rotating eyepiece
Reflector eyepiece
Repeating circle
Repeating circle; Shaded eyepiece
Rope
Roxby's pendulum quadrant shaded eyepiece
Scarf ring
Scarf rings
Sectional model
Sectional model; Midship model
Sextant eyepiece
Sextant eyepieces
Sextant eyepiece section
Sextant eyepiece shade
Sextant eyepiece tube
Sextant shaded eyepiece
Sextant spare eyepiece section
Sextant telescope eyepiece section
Shaded eyepiece
shipbuilding t&e: eyelet closing tool
shipbuilding t&e: eyelet closing tool(sailmaker's)
shipbuilding t&e: eyelet closing tool(shipwrights)
shipbuilding t&e: eyelets(sailmaker's)
shipbuilding t&e: punch, eyelet bed(sailmaker's)
Ship equipment model
Ship equipment modelDeadeye model
Side eyepiece
Side eyepiece cover
Sounding quintant shade eyepiece
Standing dead-eye
Submarine periscope eyepiece?
surveying & navigational t&e: eyepiece, sextant(two)
Telescope
Telescope (part)
Telescope draw tube
Telescope eyepiece
Telescope eye piece
Telescope eyepiece cap
Telescope eyepiece case base
Telescope eyepiece case lid
Telescope eyepiece cover
Telescope eyepiece end
Telescope eyepiece tube
Telescope lens
The decagonal barrel of this non-achromatic telescope is made of mahogany and is tapered. It has a single brass draw tube and brass fittings, including a sliding objective lens cover, of which the slide is missing. The eyepiece is also missing.Night telescope
Theodolite eyepiece
Theodolite shaded eyepiece
Three-stranded rope eye splice
Tube eyepiece
Two eyepieces, sextant
water transport: fighting vessel
water transport: fighting vessel: battery
water transport: steam vessel: yacht
water transport accessory: deadeye
water transport accessory: deadeye (chain with shifting link)
water transport accessory: eyebolt
water transport accessory: eyebolt, shackle ?
water transport accessory: model, deadeye
water transport component: midship: bottle screw
water transport component: midship: dead eye
water transport component: midship: shroud
water transport component: model, exhibition: sectional model(decked: midship: rigged: shrouds)
wire with eye
woodworking t&e: punch(rigger's tools)
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aluminium
bone or ivory
boxwood
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card
cardboard
coating: varnish
copus wood
cotton
gilding
glass
horn
iron
lacquered and guilded paperboard
leather
light wood
mahogany
metal
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metal: alloy, iron
metal: brass
metal: silver
metal: steel
organic: cardboard
organic: fibre
organic: hemp
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probably hair
rubber
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silver
silvered brass
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synthetic: acrylic fibre
synthetic: fibre, acrylic
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Display - All Hands Gallery
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Adie & Son
Army & Navy Co-operative Society Ltd
Baharie, A.
Banks
Bate, Robert
Berge, Matthew
Browning, John
Cail, John
Callaghan, W.
Cary
Cary, William
Coombes
Coombes, J.
Cox
Cox, William Charles
Dallmeyer, J. H.
Davidson, Alexander
Dollond & Aitchison
Dollond, John
Dollond, Peter
Downie, Thomas
Elliott Bros
Frodsham & Keen
Gieves & Hawkes Ltd
Grubb, Howard
Heath & Co. Ltd
Heather, William
Henry Hughes & Son Limited
Herschel, John Frederick William
Herschel, William
Hicks, G. E.
Hilger, A
Hoar, Horace
Johann Alexander Herschel
Jones, Thomas
Joseph T. Eltringham and Co
Lyons, Godfrey
Magellan, Jean Hyacinthe de
Mills, Robert
National Maritime Museum
Negretti & Zambra
Owens, Owen
Parkinson & Frodsham
Paul Cameron and John Blakeney
Plath, C.
Potter, John Dennett
Ramsden, Jesse
Ransomes & May
Ransomes & Sims
Reynolds & Wiggins
Roberts
Ross, Andrew
Rossi, George
Ross Ltd
Spencer Browning & Rust
Stebbing, Joseph
T. Cooke and Sons Ltd
Taylor, Janet
Troughton & Simms
Tulley, Charles
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Worthington & Allan
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Norwich
Plymouth
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possibly France
Southampton
South Shields
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Arctic Exploration: Dr John Rae, 1853-1854
Arctic Exploration: Franklin's Last Expedition, 1845-1848
Arctic Exploration: Franklin Search Expedition, McClintock, 1857-1859
Arctic Exploration: Franklin Search Expedition, Schwatka, 1878-1880
Napoleonic Wars: Battle of Copenhagen, 1801
Transit of Venus, 1874
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Baghdad (1871)
Dumbarton [RMS]
Fox (1855)
Thunderbolt 1856 [HMS]
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Adcock, Harry
Airy, George Biddell
Barrow, John
Bedford, M. D.
Christie, William Henry Mahoney
Hall, Herbert
Herschel, Alexander Stewart
Herschel, John Frederick William
Herschel, William
Hobson, William Robert
Irving, John
Nelson, Horatio
Royal Greenwich Observatory
Royal United Service Institution
South Kensington Museum
Woolley, Richard van der Riet
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Telescope eyepiece cap
Pocket telescope eyepiece cap
Roxby's pendulum quadrant shaded eyepiece
Sextant spare eyepiece section
Naval telescope eyepiece cap
Pocket telescope case eyepiece cap
Small telescope or sextant eyepiece (Sextant eyepiece)
Eyepieces
Reflecting circle shaded eyepiece
Telescope eyepiece cap
Telescope eyepiece cap
Telescope eyepiece cap
Telescope eyepiece cap
Reflecting circle shaded eyepiece
Theodolite shaded eyepiece
Naval telescope eyepiece cap
Telescope eyepiece
Reflecting circle shaded eyepiece
Reflecting circle shaded eyepiece
Telescope eyepiece cap
Theodolite eyepiece
Telescope eyepiece cap
Telescope eyepiece cap
Liquid compass; Lens/eyepiece cap?
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