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Surveyor's Level by Joseph Jackson

1735-60

Six's thermometer, 1876.

1876

Spirit thermometer by Pastorelli

1849

Apparatus to demonstrate the thermal expansion of liquids, mid 19th century.

1831-1870

Rutherford minimum thermometer by L. Casella

'Standard Barometer' or storm glass

1900-1920

'Sitesquare' optical square, British, 1959

1959

Improved Patent Portable Theodolite

1818-1826

Circumferentor, British, 1792-1800

1792-1800

Universal Equatorial Sundial.

Standard maximum thermometer by Negretti and Zambra

1852

Standard Rutherford minimum thermometer

1790 (designed)

Maximum and minimum thermometer by C.F.Casella

1908-1913

Grass minimum thermometer by Calderara, 1928.

1928

Strut thermometer by J. Hicks

1929

Daniell hygrometer

1860-1880, 1812 (design)

Six's thermometer, 1876.

1876

Rutherford maximum and minimum thermometer, 1794

1794

Clinometer with spirit level

'Cole Pattern' sun compass with vertical gnomon on adjustable metal fixtures

1939-1945

Gunner's quadrant with mahogany case

Minimum thermometer by Negretti and Zambra

Aeroplane thermometer, 1919.

1919

Spirit thermometer by Newman

1850

Strut psychrometer

1944

Transit theodolite, 6-inch, with magnetic compass, by Troughton & Simms, Fleet Street, London, England, 1826-1850

Transit theodolite, British, 1826-1850

1826-1850

Sympiesometer with 9-inch ivory scale, in case, by L. Casella, 1858.

Air barometer or "sympiesometer", 1858.

1858

Minimum thermometer with bifurcated bulb, on ebonite, by Louis Casella, c. 1873.

Minimum thermometer with bifurcated bulb

1873

Daniell hygrometer, unsigned, circa 1860, presented to the Met. Office Museum by The Royal Meteorological Society in 1978

Daniell hygrometer

1860-1880, 1812 (design)

One of a pair of prisms in frames

One of a pair of prisms in frames