Telescope by Christopher Cock

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1673

‘Visual glasses’ designed by Benjamin Martin

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1756-1800

Refracting telescope with achromatic lens, made by the Dollond family

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1760-1775

Telescope by John Marshall

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1685-1695

Handheld reading lens and case

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1680-1700

Telescope by John Yarwell.

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1685-1695

Pair of plastic National Health Service spectacles

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c. 1950

Optician's shop sign in the form of a large pair brass framed spectacles with coloured glass

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'Japanese' magic mirror

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Periscope for use in trenches, by R. & J. Beck Ltd.

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1918

Camera lucida by Wollaston, made by Cary, 1830

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1825-1835

`Steadyscope' Type GS907/1A Serial no.0643, made b

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1976-1979

Box-type Camera Obscura

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1795-1805

'Fernglas 08' Galilean binoculars, in case

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1908-1918

Kershaw 'Vanguard' 10x50 Prismatic binocular no 71193

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1950-1959

Plate cut from zircon uniaxial crystal, prepared a

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Large goniometer and spectrometer with heating apparatus and two thermometers by R. Fuess

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1880-1885

Camera obscura, box-type, with 2 3/8-inch meniscus

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1845-1855

Model of a Penrose staircase

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1968

Binocular, 2.5 x 50, galilean, the bridge marked w

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1944-1948

FT37 rangefinder, one of two, by Barr and Stroud

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1939-1945

Oval Concave Mirror (c.1740-50), in sharkskin case

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1740-1750

Single oval eyeglasses in gold (?) frame with orna

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Gas burner assembly

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1881

Pair of Nike V12 sports sunglasses

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1997

opera glass telescope in case

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1838-1854

Brewster type achromatic stereoscope

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1860-1870

'day and night' achromatic telescope (Meniscus len

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1776-1792

Wollaston camera lucida, in case

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New Patent Jewel Kaleidoscope, 1854-1863

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1854-1863

Plane Rowland diffraction grating on speculum meta

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1895-1909 (estimated)

Oval blue meniscus convex spectacle lens (for corr

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7x50 binocular with internal filters model CF41 se

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1940

Two-power artillery periscope

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1917

Prismatic binoculars, sectioned, by Ross of London

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1945-1951

brass contact goniometer, Carangeot type, in fish

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1825-1835

Concave mirror, 12 inch diameter, in wooden frame,

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1870

Light meter, dual range 500/2000 lux by Metrix, in

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1960-1979

"Parasol" Kaleidoscope by Steven and Debra Gray

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Photo lens, Taylor, Taylor and Hobson, Brooke Avia

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Ophthalmic lens blank in Reactolite Rapide photochromic glass

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1986-1987

Cases for plastic haptic lenses

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1980-1982

Simple camera lucida kit in plastic with five pens

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EEL Lightmaster Photometer serial no. 18-3486 (a l

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1960-1969 (estimated)

Wollaston's Camera Lucida (c.1820), brass stamped

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1820

Phakoscope designed by Hermann von Helmhotz, made by H. Sittel

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1870-1878

Hand-held refracting telescope by Benjamin Martin

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1770-1777

William Herschel’s ‘infrared’ prism

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1795-1805

Original prism by Joseph von Fraunhofer

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Phantasmagoria magic lantern, late 18th century

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1780-1900