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Category
Collection
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Object type
Place
Material
Date

Ready reckoner for ship's cargoes

1807

Demainbray's cometarium

1750-1760

Architect's drawing instruments

Hughes microphone detector, 1865-1875

1865-1875

Refracting telescope with achromatic lens, made by the Dollond family

1760-1775

Slide rule by Robert Bissaker

1654

Sundial making tool

1690-1710

Model of Vauloue's piledriver

1737-1752

Napier's Bones

1690

Builder's whole, rigged model, of SS 'Great Eastern', 1853-1857

1853-1857

Box of sixty boxwood calculating rods

1690-1710

Improved hydrometer with four weights

1815-1825

Nocturnal boxwood and brass

1702

Rectangular reclining sundial

1592

Surveyor's plane table outfit, 1881-1890

1881-1890

Gilt customs and excise standard no 1 (Sikes) hydrometer by J J Hicks

1870-1930

Improved saccharometer

1825-1835

Reproduction in boxwood, "Dr Black 1808 Scr."

1807

Boxwood copy of Trafalgar medal

1805-1819

Small piece of boxwood

1790-1819

Wollaston-type optometer

1825-1835

Drawing scale, boxwood

1790-1819

Boxwood fathom marker

1876

Boxwood fathom marker

1876

Improved Callendar and Griffiths Resistance Bridge, 1850-1900

1850-1900

Lefebvre type clitograph, French, 1862

1862

Cavalry sketching board, 1910

1910

Slide rule, Thomson's patent

Botanical model

1875-1900

Botanical model

1875-1900

Original Callendar and Griffiths Resistance Bridge, 1850-1900

1850-1900

New Improved' universal compound microscope with fitted mahogany case

1785-1795

Terrestrial hand telescope

1675-1685

Maximum Mercury and Minimum Alcohol Thermometer by J.J. Griffin & Sons, 1880

1880

Refracting terrestrial telescope

1700-1705

Dines-type anemometer display, 1892-1900

1892-1900

Boxwood Harrow Mark Reducer slide rule by E.S.A.

Slide rule for interest calculations

1824

Four foot gauging rule

1804-1844

Timber Slide Rule

1789-1810

C. Hoare's pocket plate and bar slide rule

Boxwood sector (6-inch) by W.F Stanley & Company

1876

Distance Meter for Plane Table, 1765-1775

1765-1775

Refracting terrestrial telescope by Mann & Ayscough

1740-1750

Beam compasses

1876

Textile printing block of irregular shape

1750-1830

Textile printing block

1750-1830

Irregular shaped textile printing block

1750-1830

Narrow rectangular Textile printing block

1800-1825

Engineer's slide rule, boxwood

1790-1819