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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

Telescopes Online Gallery

The Herschels as experimenters

The Herschels as instrument makers

The many faces of the telescope

Type

A-frame

A. Telescope

Achromatic telescope

Airy's Water Telescope

astronomical t&e: altazimuth

astronomical t&e: disc

astronomical t&e: heliometer(cassegrain reflecting telescope)

astronomical t&e: photoheliograph

astronomical t&e: telescope

astronomical t&e: telescope (20ft)

astronomical t&e: telescope (46 inch)

astronomical t&e: telescope(astronomical reflector)

astronomical t&e: telescope(astronomical refracting)

astronomical t&e: telescope(astronomic reflector)

astronomical t&e: telescope(equatorial refracting)

astronomical t&e: telescope(refracting)

astronomical t&e: telescope(refracting 30 inch)

astronomical t&e: telescope(refracting comet seeking)

astronomical t&e: telescope(refractor)

astronomical t&e: telescope, achromatic

astronomical t&e: telescope, achromatic(originally achromatic, concave element missing)

astronomical t&e: telescope, achromatic(triple achromatic)

astronomical t&e: telescope, achromatic(watch in OG)

astronomical t&e: telescope, achromatic signalman's

astronomical t&e: telescope, achromatic spy glass

astronomical t&e: telescope, achromatic walking stick

astronomical t&e: telescope, finder

astronomical t&e: telescope, galilean

astronomical t&e: telescope, galilean(combined telescope/sundial)

astronomical t&e: telescope, galilean: telescope, achromatic

astronomical t&e: telescope, gregorian: telescope, astronomical reflector(pocket astronomical reflector)

astronomical t&e: telescope, gunlayer's: telescope, achromatic ?

astronomical t&e: telescope, inverting(achromatic. prismatic)

astronomical t&e: telescope, pocket: telescope, achromatic

astronomical t&e: telescope, portable: telescope, achromatic

astronomical t&e: telescope, reflecting

astronomical t&e: telescope, reflecting(20ft)

astronomical t&e: telescope, reflecting(Newtonian)

astronomical t&e: telescope, refracting

astronomical t&e: telescope, refracting: telescope, achromatic

astronomical t&e: telescope, water

astronomical t&e: telescope: mural circle

astronomical t&e: telescope component

astronomical t&e: telescope component: stand

astronomical t&e: telescope component: stand, astrographic refractor

astronomical t&e: telescope component: stand, telescope

astronomical t&e: telescope component: tube, telescope

astronomical t&e: telescope component: tube, telescope(reflecting)

A Telescope

Barrel

Box

Cabinet contents

Case

Counterweight

Day and night telescope

Day or night telescope

Day or night telescope draw tube

Day telescope

drafting t&e: sector, equatorial

drafting t&e: sector, Zenith

elescope

Eye piece

Eyepiece

Finder Telescope

Flea-glass telescope

Galilean telescope

Gear with cogs

Gregorian telescope

Gun-laying telescope

Gun-sighting telescope

Gun laying telescope

Gun sighting telescope

Hand-held telescope

Handle

Handle -telescope mount part?

Lens

Lens cap

Lens cover

Look-out telescope

Lookout telescope

Medallion base

Metal bar

Micrometer

mount

Naval telescope

Night telescope

Non-achromatic night telescope

Non-achromatic pocket telescope

Non-achromatic polygonal telescope

Non-achromatic telescope

Objective lens cap

Officer of the Watch telescope

optical t&e: cover, object glass

optical t&e: draw tube, telescope(eyepiece draw tube)

optical t&e: draw tube, telescope(two pieces)

optical t&e: eyepiece, telescope

optical t&e: rack, telescope

optical t&e: support, telescope(for crow's nest)

optical t&e: telescope

optical t&e: telescope(fragment)

optical t&e: telescope(non-achromatic)

optical t&e: telescope(non-achromatic ?)

optical t&e: telescope, bridge

optical t&e: telescope, inverting(non-achromatic)

optical t&e: telescope, miniature folding

optical t&e: telescope, night glass: telescope, inverting

optical t&e: telescope, night glass: telescope, inverting(achromatic)

optical t&e: telescope, night glass: telescope, inverting(non-achromatic)

optical t&e: telescope, pocket

optical t&e: telescope, pocket(non-achromatic)

optical t&e: telescope, spy glass

optical t&e: telescope, spy glass(non-achromatic)

optical t&e: telescope component: cap, telescope

optical t&e: telescope component: ring, object glass

Part of a flea-glass telescope

personal symbol: coat of arms

personal symbol: coat of arms, royal

personal symbol: crest (rampant lion)

Photoheliograph

Plate holder assembly

Pocket telescope

Pole

Polygonal telescope

Portable telescope

presentation artifact: telescope(in form of lighthouse)

Presentation telescope

Prismatic Telescope

Prismatic telescope

Quintant telescope

Rangefinder telescope

Repeating circle

Repeating circle; Telescope

Screws

Sextant

Sextant telescope

Shade

Sighting tube

Sight tube

sight tube

Sight tube? for sextant

Signalling telescope

Slitless Spectrograph for the Yapp Telescope

Spectrograph

Spyglass telescope

Spy glass telescope

Stand/Support?

Support ?

Support rod ?

Support stand

surveying & navigational t&e: compass, dry card(deviation)

surveying & navigational t&e: lighthouse

surveying & navigational t&e: quadrant

surveying & navigational t&e: telescope

surveying & navigational t&e: telescope, transit instrument

surveying & navigational t&e: telescope: quadrant, mural

surveying & navigational t&e: telescope: quadrant, mural(5ft)

surveying & navigational t&e: telescope: transit, portable

surveying & navigational t&e: telescope: transit, reversible

surveying & navigational t&e: telescope: transit circle, refracting

surveying & navigational t&e: theodolite

Technical Drawing for refractor telescope

Telesceop

Telescope

Telescope (part)

Telescope, achromatic walking stick

telescope, inverting (night glass)

Telescope; part; motor

Telescope A-frame

Telescope and microscope

Telescope and rangefinder

Telescope attachment

Telescope attachment cap

Telescope attachment lens

Telescope Barrel

Telescope barrel

Telescope barrel and objective lens

Telescope box

Telescope Box

Telescope box and stand

Telescope box key

Telescope box screw

Telescope bracket

Telescope canvas bag

Telescope cap

Telescope case

Telescope component

Telescope components

Telescope Counterweight

Telescope cover

Telescope description booklet

Telescope diagram

Telescope draw tube

Telescope draw tube and objective lens assembly

Telescope draw tube fragment

Telescope extension shade

Telescope eyepiece

Telescope Eyepiece

Telescope eye piece

Telescope eyepiece cap

Telescope Eyepiece Cap

Telescope eyepiece case base

Telescope eyepiece case lid

Telescope eyepiece cover

Telescope eyepiece end

Telescope eyepiece tube

Telescope for sextant

Telescope gear with cogs

Telescope lens

Telescope Lens

Telescope lens cap

Telescope lens cover

Telescope lens part

Telescope Metal bar

Telescope micrometer

Telescope mirror

Telescope mirror bracket

Telescope miscellaneous parts

Telescope mount

Telescope mount part?

Telescope objective cap

Telescope Objective Cap

Telescope objective lens cap

Telescope part

Telescope part?

Telescope Plate holder assembly

Telescope pointer

Telescope Pole

Telescope rack

Telescope screws

Telescope shade

Telescope Shade

Telescope stand

Telescope Stand

Telescope Stand/Support?

Telescope stand knob

Telescope Strap

Telescope sundial

Telescope support

Telescope Support ?

Telescope Support rod ?

Telescope support stand

Telescope tube

telescope tube

Telescope tube and mounting

Telescope tube cap

Telescope tube section

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

Top of Eyepiece cap

Variable power telescope

visual communication t&e: code, signal

Walking stick telescope

water transport: exploration/research vessel

water transport: exploration/research vessel (HMS)

water transport: fighting vessel: 2nd rate (HMS)

water transport: fighting vessel: 3rd rate (HMS)

water transport: fighting vessel: 5th rate (HMS) ?

water transport: fighting vessel: battleship (HMS)

water transport: fighting vessel: cruiser (German)

water transport: sailing vessel

water transport: service vessel: storeship

water transport: steam vessel: yacht

Materials

baize

Bakelite / Phenol Formaldehyde (PF)

balleen

beech

black ivory

black paint

bone

boxwood

brass

Brass

brass, enamel

brass, glass, wood

canvas

card

cardboard

cast iron

copper

enamel

enamelled brass

felt

gilding

gilt

gilt brass

glass

gold

horn

iron

ivory

japanned paperboard

Key ivory (CITES)

lacquer

lacquered and guilded paperboard

leather

leather (case)

lignum vitae

liquid

mahogany

metal

Metal

metal: brass

nickel alloy

oak

painted canvas

paper

papier mâché

parchment

pasteboard

pearls

pearwood

pigskin

pine

pine wood

plastic

raykskin (shagreen)

rayskin

rayskin (shagreen)

rope

shagreen

sharkskin

shark skin

silver

silvered brass

specula

speculum

speculum (metal)

steel

textile

textile: velvet

tin

tortoiseshell

vellum

velvet

walnut

whipcord

wood

wood (box)

Display Location

Display - Maritime London Gallery

Display - Pacific Encounters Gallery

Display - Polar Worlds Gallery

Display - QH

Display - ROG

Display - Sea Things Gallery

Display - Traders Gallery

Display - Tudor and Stuart Seafarers Gallery

Not on display

Creator

Adam Hilger Ltd

Adams

Adams, Dudley

Adams, George

Adie & Son

Airy, George Biddell

Banks

Bate, Robert

Berge, Matthew

Bildt, Jan (Pytters) van der

Bird, John

Broadhurst Clarkson & Co

Callaghan, W.

Cary

Cary, William

Cauchoix, Robert -Aglae

Christian Mur & Johann Sterr

Clark, Josiah Latimer

Cock, Christopher

Cooke, Thomas

Cox, W. C.

Cox, William Charles

Cuff, John

Cunigham, Jacob

Cutts, Sutton & Son

Dallmeyer, J. H.

Davidson, Alexander

Dixey, George

Dobbie McInnes & Clyde Ltd

Dollond & Aitchison

Dollond, Peter

Dring & Fage

Edward Kahler, E

Elliott Bros

Fraser & Son

Frodsham & Keen

Frost, J.

George Lee & Son

Gieves & Hawkes Ltd

Gilbert & Sons

Gosselin

Graham, George

Gregory & Wright

Grubb, Howard

Grubb, Thomas

Hamel

Hammersley

Harris, John

Haupois, Jean

Heather, William

Herschel, Caroline Lucretia

Herschel, John Frederick William

Herschel, William

Hinde, John

Hooke, Robert

Hughes, Joseph

Huguenin, H.

Hurt, Joseph

Hutchinson & Jackson

J. Cox & Son

Jecker

Johann Alexander Herschel

John Liford

Jones

Jones, Thomas

Jones, Thomas & Sons

Jones, W. H.

Jones, William

Lassel

Lassell, W

Lewis, William

Liford, John

Longland, William

Lyons, Godfrey

Marshall, John

Mazzuchi, Joseph

Mills, Robert

Moschino, Giuseppe

Mudie, D. J.

Nairne & Blunt

Nairne, Edward

National Maritime Museum

Negretti & Zambra

Newman, John

Newman, John Frederick

Newton, William & Frederick

Nugent, Edmund

Owens, Owen

Pillischer, Moritz

Pyefinch, Henry

Ramsden, Jesse

Ransomes & May

Ransomes & Sims

Rheita, Antonio Maria Schyrle de

Roberts

Ross, Andrew

Rossi

Rossi, George

Ross Ltd

Sansedonius, Franc

Sayde

Scarlett, Edward

Schenk, W.

Selva, Domenico

Sevin, Pierre

Sharp, Abraham

Short, James

Sisson, Jeremiah

Sisson, Jonathan

Spencer Browning & Rust

Stebbing, George

Sterrop, George

Steward, J. H.

T. Cooke and Sons Ltd

Taylor, Janet

Tench, Matthew Parker

Thomas Harris & Son

Thomas Jones & Son

Timms, W. H.

Troughton

Troughton & Simms

Troughton, Edward

Tulley, Charles

Unknown

Voigtlander & Sohn

W. G. Pye & Co.

W. Ottway & Co. Ltd

Watkins & Smith

Watkins, Francis

Watkins, William

West, Francis

Whitbread, G.

Willdey, George

William Harris & Co.

Willson, George

Wood, Edward G.

Worthington, Nathaniel

Wright, Thomas

Places

Bern, Switzerland

Bristol

Cambridge

Charing Cross

City of London

Clay Hall near Windsor, completed in Slough.

Devonport

Dublin

Ealing

Edinburgh

England

France

Freising

Genoa

Germany

Germany or Netherlands

Italy

Italy or England

Japan

Liverpool

London

Naples

Norwich

Paris

possibly France

possibly French

probably French

Russia

Slough

Southsea

Sunderland

Switzerland

United Kingdom

Unknown

Venice

Washington

Events

Antarctic Exploration: British National Antarctic Expedition, 1901-1904

Arctic Exploration: Dr John Rae, 1853-1854

Arctic Exploration: Franklin's Last Expedition, 1845-1848

Arctic Exploration: Franklin Search Expedition, Anderson, 1855

Arctic Exploration: Franklin Search Expedition, McClintock, 1857-1859

Arctic Exploration: Franklin Search Expedition, Schwatka, 1878-1880

Arctic Exploration: North Pole expedition, Nares, 1875-1876

Boxer Rebellion, 1900

Carte du Ciel & the Astrographic Catalogue project, 1887-1958

Discovery of Uranus, 1781

Eclipse of the Sun, 1912

Transit of Venus, 1769

Transit of Venus, 1874

World War I, 1914-1918

World War I: Battle of the Falkland Islands, 1914

Vessels

Bombay (1828)

Bounty (purchased 1787)

Camperdown (1885)

Discovery (1873)

Discovery (1901)

Dorothea fl.1818

Fox (1855)

Fury (1814)

Galatea 1794 (possibly Galatea 1810) ?

Scharnhorst fl.1914 (Sank at this Battle)

Sultan (1870)

Vanguard (1835)

Exhibition

North-West Passage

Ships, Clocks & Stars: The Quest for Longitude

Time and Longitude

Traders: The East India Company and Asia

Voyagers

People

Airy, George Biddell

Aubert, Alexander

Back, George

Baddeley, A. Margaret

Baldcock, Thomas

Barrow, John

Berge, Matthew

Bernard, J.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

Booten, B. E. de V

Boys, Henry (RN)

Boys, William H (RN)

Brigstocke, Thomas Robert

Buchan, David

Burgess, John, retfl

Captain Wilkinson

Carpendale, Charles Douglas

Chien Loung, Emperor

Christie, William Henry Mahoney

Clark, Josiah Latimer

Colonel John Herschel

Cook, James

Cooper, Capt

Cox, William Charles

Crispin, William

Cust, Francis P

Cust, W

Davidson, R. B.

Dawson, Alexander

de Montauban, Gen

Dollond, Peter

Donaldson, L.

Doran, Albert

Doran, Emma

Esdaile, Frank Samuel Drake

Everard, James

Fisher, George

Fitzclarence, Lord Adolphus

Fowler, Robert Merrick

Franck, Bernard

Franklin, John

Fryer, John

Gieves & Hawkes Ltd

Gilbert, George

Gilbert, Joseph

Greenwich Hospital

Greenwich Hospital School

Griffin, William

Halley, Edmond

Hand, T. H. H.

Harris, William

Herschel, Caroline Lucretia

Herschel, John Frederick William

Herschel, William

Hobson, Capt (RN)

Huish, Henry (RN)

Irving, John

Johann Alexander Herschel

Keppel, Augustus

King William IV

Legge, A K

Macartney, George

McClintock, Francis Leopold

Miller, John

Minet, Isaac

Nares, George Strong

National Service League

Nelson, Horatio

Newbegin, Algenon Montagu

Norwich, Bishop of

Nugent, Edmund

Palmer, John

Parrott, Charles

Parry, William Edward

Pascal, George Frederick

Pasco, John

Pond, John

Pool, Bernard

Prince Alfred Ernest Albert, Duke of Edinburgh

Ramsden, Jesse

Reade, Benjamin (Surname could be Peat.

Redmill, J. D.

Rossi, George

Ross Ltd

Royal Greenwich Observatory

Royal United Service Institution

Rump, Hugh R.

Sanderson, A. C.

Scott, Charles Montagu Douglas

Scott, Robert Falcon

Semple, Frederick

Sheepshanks, Reverend Richard

Shortland, John

Smith, William Sidney

Spread Eagle Antiques

Stanfell, Francis

Steevens, Charles

Stokes, John Lort

Stokes, Oliver M F.

Tchichagoff

Thomas Harris & Son

Vansittart, Edward Westby

Walton, E.

Warr family

Watkins & Smith

Watts, James Samuel

William Harris & Co.

Woolley, Richard van der Riet

Worth, Peter Reginald Glenhome

Wrey, William Bourchier Sherard

Century

17th

18th

19th

20th

unknown

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Pocket telescope

A pocket refracting telescope and case. (Telescope)

Telescope eyepiece cap

Day or night telescope

Night telescope

Portable telescope

Day or night telescope

Portable reflector telescope (Telescope)

Pocket telescope

Polygonal telescope

Portable reflector telescope (Telescope)

Polygonal telescope

Night telescope

Pocket telescope

Walking stick telescope

Officer of the Watch telescope

Polygonal telescope

Pocket telescope

10ft Newtonian (reflector) telescope tube (Telescope tube)

Lookout telescope

Gregorian telescope

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