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William Thomson's Tide Predicting Machine, 1872

1872

Section of lightning conductor from St Paul’s cathedral

1769

Worden gravity meter by Texas Instruments Ltd., c.1970 (With radioactive source); with demonstration model under glass dome and stand showing the quartz spring mechanism used in Worden gravity meter.

Worden gravity meter by Texas Instruments Ltd.

1970

Potentiometer, for spontaneous polarisation measurements

1931

Non-polarizing electrode, for spontaneous polarisation measurements

1931

TI 407 power control unit by Techno Instruments

1964-1967

Dip plotter arm

1948-1950

Peltier Type Electrometer, 1848

1845

Radiobeacon by Aquatronics

MP 8 swamp and marine geophone, 21x5 diam cm

TI 551A Single-drum recorder - reproducer by Techno Instruments

1956-1966

PROBE UNIT MO 30 sea water sound velocity meter

Wooden bracket from the Gravity pendulum by Bailey

1834

Hedges and Lowrie-Hall vacuum earthing device

BAZ shot blaster by Seismograph Service

1958

Tellohm resistivity meter by Nash and Thompson Ltd.

1960

Portable refraction seismograph by Geospace

1960

Eötvös torsion balance for geophysical prospecting by Süss Nandor

1920

Holweck-Lejay inverted pendulum gravimeter

1934

Geophone, sectioned, c.1955

1955

Scrase altielectrograph, 1937

1937

GAA reflection geophone

1950

Air terminal with grooved lead joint attachment for horizontal lightning conductor

1905

Three electric alarm bells

2-shot firing system MkI by STS

1975-1980

Piece of signal wire and piece of block wire

Original Lodge lightning protector

Seismochronograph designed by Arnold von Lasaulx, c. 1876

1876

Gravity pendulum by Bailey, R.A.S. No.2

1834

Three brass screws from the Gravity pendulum by Bailey

1834

BC 3 shot blaster by Electro-Tech

1960

Samples of wire struck by lightning

Portions of lead flashing from roof

Rainwater pipes bonded together

Holweck-Lejay inverted pendulum gravimeter

1934

Enlarged seismogram of Taiwan earthquake, 15 October 1922

1922

CDA camera-recorder by Seismograph Service

1960-1965

Record of Gravity Determinations Made By a Dutch Submarine

1923

Kelvin's second tide predictor, 1873.

1873

Varley's Lightning Protector, 1861

1861

Eötvös torsion balance by L. Oertling Ltd, 1925

1925

Model of Halley V Antarctic research station, 1999

1999

Replica of Lightning Conductor by Benjamin Franklin, United States, 1730-1760

1730-1760 (original); 1931-1939 (replica)

Solid State Seismometer

Strong motion seismograph

1971-1980

Rubidium-Vapour Magnetometer Sensor, 1968-1972

1968-1972

Model of Henry Cavendish's Torsion Balance Gravitational Apparatus, 1798

1798 (original); 1977 (model)

Resistivity meter by Martin-Clark, Oxford, 1977

1977

Megger type earth resistance tester, 1929-1932

1929-1932

Sectioned half-scale model of Eötvös torsion balance

1928