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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
Popular Astronomy
Sundials
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Telescopes at the Royal Observatory Greenwich
Telescopes Online Gallery
The Herschels as experimenters
The Herschels as instrument makers
The many faces of the telescope
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Astronomical regulators and precision clocks
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Domestic clocks and watches
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Astronomical regulator
astronomical t&e: telescope(equatorial refracting)
astronomical t&e: telescope(refracting)
astronomical t&e: telescope(refractor)
astronomical t&e: telescope component: eyepiece
astronomical t&e: telescope component: mirror, speculum
astronomical t&e: telescope component: stand, astrographic refractor
building: observatory
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component, telescope
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Eyepieces
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Level
level [part]
Long case clock
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Marine timekeeper
Marine timekeeper 'K1'
measuring machine, photographic plate
Medal
Mercury barometer
meteorological t&e: barometer, mercury
meteorological t&e: gauge, rain
meteorological t&e: thermometer
Micrometer, parts of
Mirror and box
needle, dip circle
Newtonian primary mirror
Octant
original art: watercolour
personal symbol: coat of arms, royal
personal symbol: seal
Planisphere
Planisphere MK.1A
pointer, station
Prize medal
Rain gauge
Rule
Seal
Shortt Free Pendulum System No 16
Shortt master and slave clock system No 16
Slide rule
Station pointer
surveying & navigational t&e: theodolite
Telescope
Telescope mount
Theodolite
Thermometer
Thermometers
timekeeper: clock, long case
timekeeper: clock, long case regulator
timekeeper: clock, master
timekeeper: clock, regulator
timekeeper: regulator
timekeeper: regulator, astronomical
timekeeper: timekeeper, marine(H1)
timekeeper: timekeeper, marine(H2)
timekeeper: timekeeper, marine(H3)
timekeeper: timekeeper, marine(H4)
timekeeper: timekeeper, marine(K1)
Variation compass
Watercolour
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black lacquered brass, with electrum(?) scale
black paint
boxwood, brass
boxwood, brass, paper
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brass
brass, glass
brass, glass, ?silver plate
bronze
cast iron
copper
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glass
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green baize
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inorganic: plastic, glass
ivory (CITES)
lignum vitae
mahogany
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mercury
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metal: brass
metal: bronze
oak
organic: leather
organic: watercolour and gouache on paper, brown
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steel
steel pin?
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Bate, Robert Brettell
Burbidge, Eleanor Margaret
Cary
Cauchoix, Robert -Aglae
Chaplain, J.C.
Cooke, Thomas
Cottingham, E. T.
Cottingham, Edwin Turner
Dallmeyer, J. H.
Edward John Dent & Co.
Grubb, Howard
Grubb, Thomas
Harrison, John
Herschel, William
John Arnold & Son
Kendall, Larcum
Malby & Co
Negretti & Zambra
Ramsden, Jesse
Ransomes & Sims
Riefler, S.
Riefler, Siegmund
Roubiliac, Louis-Francois
Shepherd, Charles
Simms
Synchronome Co Ltd
The British Engraving and Name Plate Manufacturing Co.
Tompion, Thomas
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W. F. Stanley & Co Ltd
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Carte du Ciel & the Astrographic Catalogue project, 1887-1958
Founding of the Royal Observatory, 1675
Paris International Exhibition, 1900
Transit of Venus, 1874
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Ships, Clocks & Stars: The Quest for Longitude
Time and Longitude
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Airy, George Biddell
Bate, Robert Brettell
Bradley, Reverend James
Dallmeyer, J. H.
Harrison, John
Herschel, William
Jones, Harold Spencer
King George II
Newbegin, Algenon Montagu
Newton, Isaac
Ramsden, Jesse
Riefler, S.
Royal Greenwich Observatory
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Sheepshanks, Reverend Richard
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Prize medal (technical photography): Paris International Exhibition 1900 (Prize medal)
Medal commemorating the tercentenary of the Old Royal Observatory, Greenwich, 1975 (Medal)
Medal commemorating the tricentenary of the Old Royal Observatory, Greenwich, 1975 (Medal)
H1 (Marine timekeeper)
Newtonian primary mirror
The Royal Observatory, Greenwich, from the south-south-east (Watercolour)
level [part]
Eyepieces
Micrometer, parts of
Astrographic refractor mounting (Telescope mount)
An astronomical regulator by Siegmund Riefler (1847-1912) of Munich, number 152, 1905 (Astronomical regulator)
Isaac Newton (1642-1727) (Bust)
A wall mounted astronomical regulator with Airy’s spring detent escapement, manufactured by E. Dent & Co. No. 1906, c.1870 (Astronomical regulator)
Cary Porter Azimuth Instrument (Station pointer)
Slide rule
Slide rule
Shortt Free Pendulum System No 16
Sidereal degree clock (Long case clock)
Electrical motor clock (Electrical motor clock)
Thermometer
Royal Observatory public barometer (Mercury barometer)
H4 (Marine timekeeper)
H3 (Marine timekeeper)
Seal
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