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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)

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

1798 (original); 1977 (model)

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

Resistivity meter by Martin-Clark, Oxford, 1977

1977

Photoenlargement of Tasmanian earthquake

Record of Gravity Determinations Made By a Dutch Submarine

1923

Photoenlargement of seismogram of earthquake

Sectioned half-scale model of Eötvös torsion balance

1928

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

1921

Annotated photoenlargement of Yokohama earthquake

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

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

1834

CDA camera-recorder by Seismograph Service

1960-1965

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

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

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

2-shot firing system MkI by STS

1975-1980

Portions of lead flashing from roof

Piece of signal wire and piece of block wire

Rainwater pipes bonded together

Eötvös torsion balance by L. Oertling Ltd, 1925

1925

Rubidium-Vapour Magnetometer Sensor, 1968-1972

1968-1972