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William Thomson's Tide Predicting Machine, 1872

1872

Section of lightning conductor from St Paul’s cathedral

1769

Model of the Zhang Heng seismoscope

132 CE

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

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

Potentiometer, for spontaneous polarisation measurements

1931

Non-polarizing electrode, for spontaneous polarisation measurements

1931

Holweck-Lejay inverted pendulum gravimeter

1934

Geophone, sectioned, c.1955

1955

Scrase altielectrograph, 1937

1937

Holweck-Lejay inverted pendulum gravimeter

1934

Original Lodge lightning protector

Solid State Seismometer

Strong motion seismograph

1971-1980

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

1798 (original); 1977 (model)

Resistivity meter by Martin-Clark, Oxford, 1977

1977

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

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

Model for a vane to submerge towed hydrophone streamer

1965

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

1956-1966

CDA camera-recorder by Seismograph Service

1960-1965

PROBE UNIT MO 30 sea water sound velocity meter

GAA reflection geophone

1950

Wooden bracket from the Gravity pendulum by Bailey

1834

Eötvös torsion balance for geophysical prospecting by Süss Nandor

1920

Hedges and Lowrie-Hall vacuum earthing device

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

Three electric alarm bells

2-shot firing system MkI by STS

1975-1980

Piece of signal wire and piece of block wire

Model of Halley V Antarctic research station, 1999

1999

Kelvin's second tide predictor, 1873.

1873

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

1834

Three brass screws from the Gravity pendulum by Bailey

1834

Varley's Lightning Protector, 1861

1861

Portions of lead flashing from roof

Rainwater pipes bonded together

Portable refraction seismograph by Geospace

1960

Samples of wire struck by lightning

Photoenlargement of Tasmanian earthquake

Annotated photoenlargement of Yokohama earthquake

Photoenlargement of two records of microseisms