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Section of lightning conductor from St Paul’s cathedral

1769

William Thomson's Tide Predicting Machine, 1872

1872

Samples of wire struck by lightning

Rainwater pipes bonded together

Photoenlargement of seismogram of earthquake

Air terminal with grooved lead joint attachment for horizontal lightning conductor

1905

Piece of signal wire and piece of block wire

Portions of lead flashing from roof

Hedges and Lowrie-Hall vacuum earthing device

Original Lodge lightning protector

Tide gauge recording unit

Kelvin's second tide predictor, 1873.

1873

Seismochronograph designed by Arnold von Lasaulx, c. 1876

1876

Three electric alarm bells

PROBE UNIT MO 30 sea water sound velocity meter

CDA camera-recorder by Seismograph Service

1960-1965

MP 8 swamp and marine geophone, 21x5 diam cm

Radiobeacon by Aquatronics

Strong motion seismograph

1971-1980

GAA reflection geophone

1950

BC 3 shot blaster by Electro-Tech

1960

Geophone, sectioned, c.1955

1955

Model for a vane to submerge towed hydrophone streamer

1965

TI 407 power control unit by Techno Instruments

1964-1967

Dip plotter arm

1948-1950

Tellohm resistivity meter by Nash and Thompson Ltd.

1960

Solid State Seismometer

Scrase altielectrograph, 1937

1937

Wooden bracket from the Gravity pendulum by Bailey

1834

Three brass screws from the Gravity pendulum by Bailey

1834

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

1834

Megger type earth resistance tester, 1929-1932

1929-1932

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

1930-1935

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

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

Peltier Type Electrometer, 1848

1845

Varley's Lightning Protector, 1861

1861

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

1930-1935

Holweck-Lejay inverted pendulum gravimeter

1934

Non-polarizing electrode, for spontaneous polarisation measurements

1931

Holweck-Lejay inverted pendulum gravimeter

1934

Rubidium-Vapour Magnetometer Sensor, 1968-1972

1968-1972

Resistivity meter by Martin-Clark, Oxford, 1977

1977

Model of the Zhang Heng seismoscope

132 CE

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

1798 (original); 1977 (model)

Potentiometer, for spontaneous polarisation measurements

1931

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

1921

Sectioned half-scale model of Eötvös torsion balance

1928

Eötvös torsion balance for geophysical prospecting by Süss Nandor

1920

Model of Halley V Antarctic research station, 1999

1999

Photoenlargement of Tasmanian earthquake