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Slide rule for exchange of weights and measures

1815

Surveyor's pocket sextant.

1795-1805

Capt. George portable barometer by William Cary

Brass die with corresponding paper conversion scale

1816

Brass instrument, inscribed: F L Wollaston/Shirley Warren/Southampton

Brass Cary pocket microscope

circa 1789-circa 1825

Ten inch station pointer by William Cary

1801-1851

Station pointer

1801-1900

Wollaston slide rule of chemical equivalents, 1814.

1814

Marquois scales

Brass framed quintant.

1880-1890

Gould-type microscope in mahogany case lined with velvet

1851-1870

Naturalist's telescope by William Cary

1790-1810

Goniometer

Wollaston's polariscope No. 948

1850-1899 (estimated)

Brass framed sounding quintant.

1885-1891

A revolution counter, marked Cary/London

Wollaston scale of chemical equivalents, William Cary, 1814

1914

Two double sided inscribed rules

1815

Brass die for printing conversion scales, William Cary, 1816

1816

4.5 inch station pointer by Cary

1851-1900

Box type pocket sextant.

1845-1855

Universal equinoctial ring sundial signed "Cary London"

1789-1891

Hunter type clinical thermometer

1791-1820

Sliding parallel rule:- 3 foot

Wollaston type reflecting goniometer with descriptive pamphlet

1801-1820

Slide rule

Roget's log-log slide rule

Three foot scale

Early set of drawing instruments by William Cary

1795-1825

Prismatic compass & clinometer, British, 1801-1830

1801-1830

Photomicrographic camera

Gould microscope small size

1801-1830

Six's deep sea thermometer by William Cary

1800-1899

Combined Abney Level and Clinometer, 1875-1885

1875-1885

Compound monocular microscope by Cary

1800-1825

Bevan's engineer's slide rule

Pantograph in box

1791-1851
Double Slide Rule (dated 1815), inscribed on one side EXCHANGES BULLION ETC; PULISHED BY W.CARY - 182 STRAND, APR.1.1815; on other side WEIGHTS AND MEASURES AND COINS; PUBLISHED BY W. CARY - 182 STRAND, APR.24.1.1815. Printed on paper, varnished and mounted on mahogany

Double Slide Rule (dated 1815)

1815-1820
Box of drawing instruments, some by William Cary, London.

Box of drawing instruments

Quintant made by (William) Cary, London, about 1890. Anodized brass straight-bar pattern frame; polished limb, a wooden handle with a brass-lined hole for placing it on a stand. Signed on the limb: Cary, London. Marked on the limb: Platina. Marked on the centre strut: HO [broad anchor] 12. Inlaid platinum scale from -5° to 160° every 10', measuring to 148°. Gold vernier to 10", zero at the right. The tangent screw and clamping screw are on the back of the index arm. Four shades (all grey/green); three horizon shades (all grey/green). Index-glass adjustment by capped screw; adjustment of the horizon glass by a capped screw and a capped thumb screw. Magnifier on a 80 mm swivelling arm. Threaded telescope bracket in two parts, fitted for correcting collimation error; perpendicular adjustment by rising-piece and a milled knob. Telescope (171 mm) inverted image, four cross-wires. An anodized brass column on a tripod stand with three milled levelling screws, for mounting the quintant. The counterbalanced swinging mount can be locked into the desired position by milled screws. Wth wooden carrying case.

Brass framed quintant, with carrying case.

1885-1891
Double sounding quintant invented by Rear-Admiral Frederick Beechey, and made by William Cary, London, about 1847. Anodized brass frame, polished brass limb, a circular brass handle. Signed on the limb: Cary, London. Marked on the limb: Da.96. Inlaid silver scale with two graduations, the lower from the left from -35° to 165° every 30', measuring to 145°; the upper, from the right, from -15° to 155°, measuring to 158°. Two silver verniers to 1'; zero at the left (lower) and at the right (upper). The lower tangent screw and clamping screw are on the back of the index arm, which is on the back of the frame; the upper tangent screw is on the back of the index arm, the clamping screw is on the front. No shades. Two index glasses, adjustment by screws, one horizon glass with two silvered portions and clear glass in between; adjustment by a screw and a capstan screw. Threaded telescope bracket; perpendicular adjustment by rising-piece. Telescope (70 mm) erect image. No box.

Double sounding quintant.

1845-1850
Copper die headed "Table pour convertir recproquement les Paids les Mesures et les Monnaies de France et D'Angleterre en valeurs de l'un et de l'autre pays" with die for the English equivalent. Both inscribed "London Published by A.F.Mornay Bartholomew Lane & W.Cary Strand." & 39 paper scales of each heading with two hand-written equivalents.

Copper die

Early polariscope to show the rings in axis-cut crystals, by William Cary, London, in red leather case, with book of instructions, c.1830.

Early polariscope to show the rings in axis-cut crystals, with case and instructions

1825-1835
Wollaston's reflecting goniometer, circle (8") in mahogany case (no key), by William Cary, London early 19th century. Donor's name on printed descriptive labels to be, at their request, in full and in order as follows: - Mrs. Madoline Phillips Field and Mrs Anna Phillips Lane

Wollaston's reflecting goniometer

1801-1820
Pocket double box sextant of 2½-inch radius, designed by Captain Christopher George (Trade Mark No.31) with two circular lacquered brass plates and two lids, by the company of, William Cary, Strand, City of Westminster, London, England, 1835-1845. Fitted with two Inlaid silver scales 135° and 123° (-5° to 150°) with 30 arc-minute divisions and a silver vernier with 1 arc-minute divisions and index arms rotated by milled knobs on the upper and lower plates. The index glass is fixed with adjustment for the horizon glass and a single lens magnifier is hinged on a swivel arm (40 mm) with choice of large and small pinholes

Double box sextant.

1835-1845
Artificial mercury horizon with fitted leather carrying case, designed by Captain Christopher, provisionally patented in 1868 (No.2624), by the company of William Cary, 1868-1875. Consists of two black-lacquered steel mercury holders on three levelling feet, interconnected by a tube fitted with a stopcock. One is a storage reservoir with a valve to admit air and empty the mercury into the other, which is used for making observations and is fitted with a glass cover. A spare glass cover in a chamois leather pouch, and a lever pin for operating the stopcock (both stored in the glass-covered reservoir).

Artificial mercury horizon.

1865-1875
Double barrelled air pump by William Cary, London, 1801-1900 (see note)

Double barrelled air pump by William Cary

1801-1900
Altazimuth theodolite by William Cary, London, 19th century

Altazimuth theodolite by William Cary with fitted wooden box

1801-1900
10 inch transit theodolite by William Cary, early 19th century

10 inch transit theodolite by William Cary

1801-1850