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Section of lightning conductor from St Paul’s cathedral

1769

William Thomson's Tide Predicting Machine, 1872

1872

Model of the Zhang Heng seismoscope

132 CE

Holweck-Lejay inverted pendulum gravimeter

1934

Holweck-Lejay inverted pendulum gravimeter

1934

Resistivity meter by Martin-Clark, Oxford, 1977

1977

MP 8 swamp and marine geophone, 21x5 diam cm

Geophone, sectioned, c.1955

1955

Scrase altielectrograph, 1937

1937

GAA reflection geophone

1950

Three electric alarm bells

Portions of lead flashing from roof

Piece of signal wire and piece of block wire

Hedges and Lowrie-Hall vacuum earthing device

Air terminal with grooved lead joint attachment for horizontal lightning conductor

1905

Three brass screws from the Gravity pendulum by Bailey

1834

Annotated photoenlargement of Yokohama earthquake

Photoenlargement of Tasmanian earthquake

Tide gauge recording unit

Rainwater pipes bonded together

Dip plotter arm

1948-1950

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

1834

Potentiometer, for spontaneous polarisation measurements

1931

Non-polarizing electrode, for spontaneous polarisation measurements

1931

Original Lodge lightning protector

Seismochronograph designed by Arnold von Lasaulx, c. 1876

1876

Radiobeacon by Aquatronics

Peltier Type Electrometer, 1848

1845

BC 3 shot blaster by Electro-Tech

1960

Samples of wire struck by lightning

Wooden bracket from the Gravity pendulum by Bailey

1834

TI 407 power control unit by Techno Instruments

1964-1967

PROBE UNIT MO 30 sea water sound velocity meter

Tellohm resistivity meter by Nash and Thompson Ltd.

1960

Eötvös torsion balance for geophysical prospecting by Süss Nandor

1920

Mintrop field seismograph, recording apparatus and box, for geophysical prospecting

1921

Model for a vane to submerge towed hydrophone streamer

1965

Sectioned half-scale model of Eötvös torsion balance

1928

Varley's Lightning Protector, 1861

1861

Rubidium-Vapour Magnetometer Sensor, 1968-1972

1968-1972

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

CDA camera-recorder by Seismograph Service

1960-1965

Kelvin's second tide predictor, 1873.

1873

Megger type earth resistance tester, 1929-1932

1929-1932

Photoenlargement of seismogram of earthquake

Photoenlargement of two records of microseisms

Model of Halley V Antarctic research station, 1999

1999

Clockwork mechanism for Shaw type seismograph, British, 1930-1935

1930-1935