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William Thomson's Tide Predicting Machine, 1872

1872

Section of lightning conductor from St Paul’s cathedral

1769

Solid State Seismometer

Strong motion seismograph

1971-1980

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

Kelvin's second tide predictor, 1873.

1873

Model for a vane to submerge towed hydrophone streamer

1965

Varley's Lightning Protector, 1861

1861

Model of Halley V Antarctic research station, 1999

1999

Potentiometer, for spontaneous polarisation measurements

1931

Non-polarizing electrode, for spontaneous polarisation measurements

1931

Model of the Zhang Heng seismoscope

132 CE

Geophone, sectioned, c.1955

1955

Scrase altielectrograph, 1937

1937

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

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

Original Lodge lightning protector

Rubidium-Vapour Magnetometer Sensor, 1968-1972

1968-1972

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

1798 (original); 1977 (model)

Photoenlargement of Tasmanian earthquake

Record of Gravity Determinations Made By a Dutch Submarine

1923

Photoenlargement of seismogram of earthquake

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

1921

Annotated photoenlargement of Yokohama earthquake

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

1930-1935

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

Seismochronograph designed by Arnold von Lasaulx, c. 1876

1876

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

1956-1966

CDA camera-recorder by Seismograph Service

1960-1965

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

1834

PROBE UNIT MO 30 sea water sound velocity meter

GAA reflection geophone

1950

Three brass screws from the Gravity pendulum by Bailey

1834

Wooden bracket from the Gravity pendulum by Bailey

1834

Hedges and Lowrie-Hall vacuum earthing device

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

1930-1935

BAZ shot blaster by Seismograph Service

1958

BC 3 shot blaster by Electro-Tech

1960

Air terminal with grooved lead joint attachment for horizontal lightning conductor

1905

Tide gauge recording unit

Photoenlargement of two records of microseisms

Three electric alarm bells

Tellohm resistivity meter by Nash and Thompson Ltd.

1960

Portable refraction seismograph by Geospace

1960

Samples of wire struck by lightning