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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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Dockyards, buildings, and topography
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anti-shock mounting for
anti-shock mounting for direction indicator
Anti-shock mounting for direction indicator - army
Apparatus part for testing Ostler's anemometer
armament accessory: carriage, gun (with swivelling mounting)
armament accessory: model, gun mounting
armament accessory: mounting, carronade
armament accessory: mounting, centre pivot
armament accessory: mounting, gun
armament accessory: mounting, gun(2)
armament accessory: mounting, naval
armament accessory: mounting, pedestal recoil
armament accessory: spring mounting, gun
armament t&e, artillery: carronade
armament t&e, artillery: gun, coast defence (long breech)
armament t&e, artillery: gun, forward pivot
armament t&e, artillery: gun, quick-firer
armament t&e, artillery: gun, turret-mounted (breech loading)
armament t&e, artillery: model, gun
armament t&e, artillery: model, gun(working)
armament t&e, artillery: model, turret gun(working)
astronomical t&e: telescope, reflecting(20ft)
astronomical t&e: telescope component: eyepiece
astronomical t&e: telescope component: mount, eyepiece
astronomical t&e: telescope component: stand, astrographic refractor
Bag
Bearing plate mounting bracket
Bearing plate mounting plate
Bolt from mounting bracket
Bow model
Bracket, Gimbal Bulkhead Mounting
Card mounted with five seals
Carronade model carriage
Carronade model mount
Case or mount
Ceolostat, equatorial mounting
ceremonial artifact: monument
Circumferentor tripod mount
Cistern barometer
Cog for a ship's wheel gear
Cog for a steering wheel gear
Collage
commemorative artifact: plate, handle(mounted)
Compass card mount
Compass master unit mount
Compass Stabiliser mount
Decorative medal mount
Design, Sectional model
Display mount parts
documentary artifact: model, lunar mountain
documentary artifact: ship plan: gun mount
documentary artifact: ship plan: gun mount(7pdr)
documentary artifact: ship plan: gun mount(Howitzer)
documentary artifact: ship plan: mounting(fore & after)
documentary artifact: ship plan: profile
Drawing
Drive mounting
Equatorial mount - declination axis
Equatorial mount - polar section
Equipment model
Equipment model; Ordnance model; Gun model
Eyepiece
Eyepiece and mount
Eyepiece mount
Eyepiece mounts
Filter in a brass mount
Full hull model
Full hull model; Spare topmast
G. M. balance mount
Gimbal bulkhead mounting bracket
Gimbal mounting
Gun carriage model
Gun model
Gun model; Structural model
gun mount
Gun mounting
Gun mounting model
Gun mountings
Gyro unit and mounting
Gyro unit and mounting, gyrocompass
Handle
Handle -telescope mount part?
Handle plate
Heeling error instrument mount
Helm indicator with light box
inclinometer mount?
Inclinometer needle mount?
Inclinometer needle mount pin?
Japanese mountain (possibly Mt Fuji) and crop fields
Lighthouse model mount
Lunar mountain model
Main eyepiece mount
Medal mount
Memorial wreath
meteorological t&e: barometer, mercury: barometer, cistern(walking stick barometer for mountaineering.)
Micrometer eyepiece mount cap
Micrometer eyepiece mount with eyepiece
Midship model
mount
mounting
Mounting tube
Mount part
Ordnance model
Ordnance model; Gun model
Ordnance model; Gun mounting model
Ordnance modelGun model
Ordnance modelGun mounting model
Pallet mounting block
Part of a ship's wheel gear
Part of a stearing wheel gear
Part of a steering wheel gear
Part of the mounting for 13inch astrographic telescope
Pelorus box mount
Pendulum clinometer crosspiece mount
Photographic print
Planetarium part - mount part
planetarium part - ount part
Profile
Pulley and mount
Rangefinder mount
relic, animal: zoological specimen: musk ox head, stuffed(mounted on board)
Sculpture
Sectional model
Sectional model; Bow model
Sectional model; Midship model; Waterline model
Sectional modelBow model
Sextant telescope mounting bracket
Shell base mount
Ship's wheel mount
Spare topmast
Spare topmast mounted on staghorns
spare topmasts mounted on staghorns
Spindle for a ship's wheel gear
Spindle for a steering wheel gear
Stearing wheel mount
Steering wheel mount
Stretcher
Structural model
Stuffed musk ox head
Submarine cable mount
surveying & navigational t&e: bracket, gimbal bulkhead mounting
surveying & navigational t&e: mounting: anti-shock(XA.8)
surveying & navigational t&e: mounting tube, heeling error corrector
Technical drawing
Telescope mount
Telescope mount part?
Telescope part
Telescope part?
Telescope tube and mounting
Tripod mount
Turret gun model
Wall mounted embroidery
Wall mounted sailor's collar
Waterline model
water transport: fighting vessel
water transport: fighting vessel: 3 gun boat
water transport: fighting vessel: gunvessel
water transport: research/exploration vessel: discovery vessel
water transport: service vessel: cutter (30ft)
water transport: service vessel: pinnace, life (37ft)
water transport: steam vessel: cutter, 30ft
water transport: steam vessel: pinnace, 37ft life
water transport component: bow: deck
water transport component: midship: coffer dam
water transport component: midship: gun (on disappearing mounting)
water transport component: model, design: sectional model(bow: working)
water transport component: model, design: sectional model(midship)
Wooden box with holder for a needle possibly for Airy inclinometer
Wreath
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aluminium
animal bone
black ink
brass
calico
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cardboard
carved
cast iron
coating: stain
coating: varnish
copus wood
cork
cotton
cotton thread
electric wire
foam
gilt
glass
ink
inorganic: stone
iron
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light wood
lignam vitae
mahogany
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metal: copper
metal: iron
metal: lead
metal: steel
metal thread
organic: horn
organic: skin
paint
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plaster
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ribbon
rubber?
silk
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white wash
wood
wood: lignum vitae
wood?
wool crepe
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Airy, George Biddell
Barr & Stroud Ltd
Branson, C. A.
Burton, H
Grubb, Howard
Grubb, Thomas
Hawksley, Rozanne
Henry Hughes & Son Limited
Herschel, Caroline Lucretia
Herschel, John Frederick William
Herschel, William
Johann Alexander Herschel
Plath, C.
Ransomes & Sims
Renart, D
Renart, Dionis
Sir W. G. Armstrong, Whitworth & Co. Ltd
Troughton & Simms
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W. & S. Jones
W. F. Stanley & Co Ltd
West
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Arctic Exploration: North Pole expedition, Nares, 1875-1876
Carte du Ciel & the Astrographic Catalogue project, 1887-1958
Napoleonic Wars: Battle of Trafalgar, 1805
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Alert (1856)
Marathon 1888
William (purchased 1795)
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Airy, George Biddell
Dykes, J C
Frederick John Robinson, 1st Earl of Ripon
Herschel, John Frederick William
Herschel, William
Nelson, Horatio
Parr, Alfred Arthur Chase
Royal Greenwich Observatory
Royal Marines
Sir W. G. Armstrong, Whitworth & Co. Ltd
Wilkins, Hugh Percival
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Japanese mountain (possibly Mt Fuji) and crop fields (Photographic print)
Gun mountings
Eyepiece mount
Eyepiece mounts
Eyepiece mount
Eyepiece mount
Eyepiece mount
Eyepiece mount
Eyepiece mount
Reconstructed Patterns (Drawing)
Warship (Sectional model; Midship model; Waterline model)
Gun (Equipment model; Ordnance model; Gun model)
Gun mounting
Card mounted with five seals
Ceolostat, equatorial mounting
Ordnance model; Gun mounting model
inclinometer needle mount? (Inclinometer needle mount?)
inclinometer needle mount? (Inclinometer needle mount?)
Carronade model mount
Bearing plate mounting bracket
Medal commemorating Vice-Admiral Horatio Nelson (1758-1805) and Trafalgar (Medal mount)
Compass Stabiliser mount
Sectional model; Bow model
Shell base mount
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