Walnut and brass model of the "Great Paris Telescope"
1898-1900
Prototype beam splitter for the Advanced Laser Interferometer Gravitational Wave Observatory (aLIGO)
2008 (prototype)
Small orrery by Benjamin Martin
1738-1777
Replica of refracting telescope by Galileo, 1610
1610
Celestial globe by Willem Janszoon Blaeu
1603
Gunter quadrant by Walter Hayes
1648-1687
Pocket globe in case by Dudley Adams
1799-1802
Mural arc made for King George III
1770
Filar micrometer by William Herschel, 1780-1800
1780-1800
Gunter quadrant
1650-1725
Astronomical quadrant with stand, 1685-1724
1685-1724
Gunter quadrant
1650-1725
Astrolabe by Ferdinand Arsenius
1607-1618
Altitude quadrant
1552
Plaster model of the lunar surface
1844
Foucault Pendulum for Demonstrating the Earth's Rotation
1988
Gunter quadrant
1640
Armillary sphere by Girolamo Della Volpaia
1554
Ebony and brass octant.
1777-1810
Orrery made by John Rowley for the Earl of Orrery
1712-1713
Objective lens by John Reeves
1657-1689
Terrestrial globe by Willem Janszoon Blaeu
1599
Horary quadrant by Henry Sutton
1658
Horary quadrant by Henry Sutton
1658
Moon globe by John Russell;England;1797
1797
Clockwork drive, for refracting telescope of 5.9-inch aperture
1829
Refracting telescope of 5.9-inch aperture, mounted on English type equatorial mounting with off-set lead counterweight
1829
Italian celestial globe, 1636
1636
Engravings of colour sketches showing solar prominences by Etienne Leopold Trouvelot
1872
Positive on glass
1890
Brass disc with diagram of inner Solar System showing Thomas Wright's "construction" of the Great Comet of 1744
Apparatus for showing distortion in the photoheliograph
1858-1876
Watch fob of cornelian engraved with Edmond Halley and his comet
Mechanical model to illustrate the precession of the equinoxes by Henri Robert
1867
Hammond's Improved Planisphere
1890-1910
Astronomical clock with planisphere face designed by Franz Heinrich Klodt
1880-1899
Gyroscope by Henri Robert
1857-1862
Astronomical demonstrator of retrograde planetary motion
1860-1880
Lunar globe
1987
Artificial horizon of black glass
1830-1860
Photograph film positive
1919
Orrery planetary model by the Trippensee Planetarium Company, 1968-9
1968-1969
Lunar globe
1961-1964
Calender ring from orrery planetary model
1850-1900
Commemorative mug celebrating the solar eclipse, 1999
1999
Mars globe
1997
Orrery planetary model by Space Educational Aids Limited, 1967-9
1967-1969
Speculum Metal Mirror, 1850-70
1850-1870
Mars globe
1981-1982
Photomultiplier tube
1967