Image
Category
Collection
On Display
Object type
Maker
Place of origin
Archive
Date

Part of Electromagnet

1855

Part of Electromagnet

1855

Silver shilling coin

1856

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

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

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

1798 (original); 1977 (model)

6 inch altazimuth theodolite by W. & T. Gilbert

1840

Peltier Type Electrometer, 1848

1845

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

1834

Three brass screws from the Gravity pendulum by Bailey

1834

Wooden bracket from the Gravity pendulum by Bailey

1834

Box type pocket sextant.

1845-1850

Prismatic compass, 1851-1856

1851-1856

Double sounding quintant.

1835-1845

Box of microweights for rain gauge testing. 8 missing from set of 15

after 1851

Optical opposite, British, 1840-1850

1840-1850

Ronalds' Photobarometrograph, 1847

1847

Ronalds' rain and vapour gauge (evaporimeter) by Adie & Son

1843

Folding Prismatic Compass, 1846-52

1846-1852

Payne type pedometer, British, 1853

1853

Marine barometer by Ernst

1855

Circular plane table, English, 1852

1852

Fortin mountain barometer in brass case

1850

Barograph by Moritz Pillischer, 1850

1850

Marine barometer by A Pastorelli

1838-1849

Spirit thermometer by Pastorelli

1849

Actinometer by Thomas Charles Robinson, 1840.

1840

Surveyor's compass (circumferentor)

1836-1856

Reconstruction of insulated seawater sampling bottle designed by Captain Phipps and Dr Irving

1773 (original); 1980s

Electrical recording mercury-in-glass weather balloon thermometer, 1843

1843

Aneroid Barometer, 1848

1848

Standard maximum thermometer by Negretti and Zambra

1852

Standard mercury thermometer, by Ronketti, 1846

1846

Model of Heineken thermograph, by Heineken, 1837.

1837

Herschel type actinometer, 1849-1851

1849-1851

Ordinary thermometer

1845

Standard mercury thermometer, 1854

1854

Double sounding sextant.

1845-1851

Ordinary spirit-in-glass thermometer with ivory scale and mahogany frame

1854

Solar radiation thermometer, 1849.

1849

Dr. Potter's aerometric balance

1850

Bourdon's aneroid barometer

1850

Oval pattern-frame sextant.

1851-1856

Everest theodolite

circa 1855

Rain gauge measuring glass cylinder

1851

Balfour-Stewart experimental mercury thermometer

1856

Rain gauge square section

1851

Inertia ring used by Capt. Collinson, 1850-53

1850-1853

Welsh's vertical force magnetograph by Adie, 1857

1857

Fox dip and intensity apparatus by George

circa 1840

Two inertia rings, circa 1853

1853