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Category
Optics
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Cinematography
1
Clockmakers
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Microscopy (Wellcome)
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Collection
Sir Henry Wellcome's Museum Collection
2
The Worshipful Company of Clockmakers
1
Maker
Carpenter & Westley
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Carpenter and Westley
1
Edward Nairne
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Harrison, John
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John Cuff
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John Harrison
1
John Marshall
1
Marshall, John
1
Nairne, Edward
1
On Display
Science Museum
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Medicine: The Wellcome Galleries
1
Object type
telescope - refracting
5
opera glass
4
opera glass; telescope - galilean; telescope - refracting
4
telescope - galilean
4
compund microscope
1
grasshopper escapement
1
longcase clock movement
1
longcase clock movement; grasshopper escapement
1
magic lantern slide
1
opera glass: telescope - galilean
1
Place
England
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England, United Kingdom
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London
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Barrow-upon-Humber
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Barrow-upon-Humber, North Lincolnshire, England, United Kingdom
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Europe
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London, England, United Kingdom
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London, Greater London, England, United Kingdom
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Material
lignum vitae (wood)
8
glass
6
shagreen
5
brass (copper, zinc alloy)
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leather
4
ivory
3
metal
3
paper
3
brass
2
cardboard
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Compound microscope
1701-1723
Spyglass, 1765
1751-1775
Spyglass by Edward Nairne, 1749-1775
1749-1775
single opera glass (prospect glass; spy glass)
1745-1755
Longcase clock movement by John and James Harrison
1726-1728
Chromotrope, centre scene-windmill with moving sails
1890-1900
telescope (prospect glass; spyglass) 1-draw tube
1745-1755
Prospect spyglass telescope with shagreen tube and horn or darkened ivory lens mounts
1745-1755