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Michelson actinometer, incomplete, Russian made, i

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1960-1970

Michelson actinometer, no.2987 by Russian maker, 1

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1955

Herschel actinometer by Robinson & Barrow, 1842

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1842

Actinometer, bookform, in wallet. Fold-out card containing instructions booklet, all within paper wallet.

Imperial Exposure Meter

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Sun duration sensor, actinometer, by R & D Electronics, 1997

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1997

Herschel type actinometer, 1849-1851

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1849-1851

Watch type actinometer with in-door meter dial. Watkins Meter Company.

Watkins indoor meter

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Le Chronoscope PAP cylindrical actinometer. Lens at one end, paper holder with standard tints at the other. Print-out image of scene cf with standard tint; exposure time calculated from tables (missing)

Le Chronoscope PAP actinometer

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1907-1917

Two hinged brass strips - one with small cylinder for sensitive paper and milled grooved, the other with circular aperture and standard tints (missing). For carbon printing.

Illingworth actinometer

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Burton carbon print meter. Metal box with wooden paper holder. Lid carries 6 identical negatives under stop wedge.

Burton Carbon print meter

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c. 1920

Wynne's Innfallible actinometer. Watch form actinometer, plain glass and mask with standard tint over paper disc. Cailbrated in German.

Wynne's Infallible actinometer

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1900

Haka expometer. Disc form actinometer, metal. Metal calculator rings and mask rotate over disc of sensitive paper, held by friction of emery paper stuck in back. In leather pouch.

Haka expometer

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2 Watkins Bee meters, made by Alfred Watkins. Two actinometers watchform exposure meters in original box.

Two Watkins Bee meters

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Watkins Junior exposure meter. Cylindrical form actinometer, wooden paper holder under mask and blue glass, two rotating calculator rings, 1893.

Watkins Junior exposure meter

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Bookform actinic meter by Imperial Dry Plate Co., Cricklewood. No.1 bright light, No 2, dull light. Sliderule instruction calculators. Two instruction books and pack of sensitive.

Imperial exposure meter

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Actinometer in watch form. Very slim. With a solid nickel case. The Infallible Exposure Meter Company. 1914

Wynne's infalliable Hunter meter

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1914

Special Akuret actinometer, made by Portable Studio Manufacturing Co, c.1900. Printing frame with 21 step wedge, in 3 rows. Used for carbon and platinotype process. Cost 3/6.

Special Akuret actinometer

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1895-1905

Autotype disc actinometer.

actinometer

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1910-1920

Stanley actinometer. Small pillbox type actinometer for strip of sensitive paper. No calculator.

Stanley actinometer

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Hodgkinson's actinometer, by J. Hicks of London, marked K.O.1

Hodgkinson's actinometer, by J. Hicks of London, m

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Watkins colour plate meter. Actinometer exposure meter, watchform. Calibrated for colour screen plates.

Watkins Colour Plate Meter

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Wynee's Infallible Hunter meter. An actinometer - pocket watch form; opens to reveal sensitive paper holder in one half and calculator in the other, Scales: 64 seconds to 1/1000, f.3 1/2-156.

Wynne's Infallible Hunter meter

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Haka expometer. Disc form actinometer, metal. Metal calculator rings and mask rotate over disc of sensitive paper, held by friction of emery paper stuck in back.

Haka expometer

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2 Herschel type actinometers, by Henry Barrow, London and 1848 and Thomas Charles Robinson, London, 1840

2 Herschel type actinometers, by Henry Barrow, Lon

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1848; 1840

Watkin's Bee Meter. Watchform actinometer.

Watkins Bee Meter

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Watkins hand camera meter. Disc/cylinder form actinometer, blue glass and paper mask with standard tint cover roll of paper. Two concentric calculator scales, outer one rotating. Manufactured by Watkins Meter Co., Hereford.

Watkins hand camera actinometer

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Watkin's exposure meter (pocket watch style actinometer) in box with leaflets and tint plate dial.

Watkins "Bee" Exposure Meter

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1910-1930

Hodgkinson's actinometer, marked K O no.2

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Herschel actinometer, unsigned, numbered 11

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Hodgkinson's actinometer, by J. Hicks of London, marked KO No.5

Hodgkinson's actinometer, by J. Hicks of London, m

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Wooden slide rule type calculator for exposure. Flat wooden plate marked with 3 scales. Speed 0.5-300. Exposure 0.005-60seconds. Lens f/2.8-64. Slide marked with weather: Very dull, dull, mean, bright, very bright. With speed index mark. Card insert carries time of day and year scale for North latitude 7 degrees and 30 foot. Hurter and Driffield. c.1898.

Hurter and Driffield actinograph 2nd model

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1893-1903

Watkin's Bee Meter. Watchform actinometer. In original box with instructions (12th edition)

Watkins Bee Meter

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Watch pattern actinometer in original tin with instructions , Rapid Deadmatch paper.

Wynne's Infallible meter

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1910

Wynee's Infallible Hunter meter. Watchform actinometer. Sensitive paper visible through window in the face; two scale 1/128 - 64, F. 4-362.

Wynne's Infallible Hunter meter

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Hurter and Driffield Actinograph Patent No. 5545 1888, with slide rule calculator with roller, seals for H & D speeds 300-0.5: light: very dull - very bright, aperture f/2.8-64, exposure time 0.05sec to 60 secs. Time of year and day on roller. Calibrated for North latitude 52 30 0 degrees. In wooden case. Marion & Co. 1892.

Hurter and Driffield actinograph

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1892

Watkins Bee meter. Actinometer, watch form. In original carton with short instructions, booklets and speed card.

Watkins Bee Meter

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Watkins actinometer. Watch-form actinometer, blue glass over mask with standard tint. Fixed calculator engraved on back plate.

Watkins actinometer

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Watkins actinometer, watch-form. Sensitive paper under blue glass and mask with standard tint. Fixed calculator engraved on back plate.

Watkins actinometer

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Watkins Bee meter. Actinometer, watch form.

Watkins Bee Meter

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Watkins standard meter. Cylindrical form actinometer, end cap on chain forms 1 sec. period pendulum. Wooden paper holder at other end under mask with tint segment and blue glass. Three rotating calculator rings.

Watkin standard meter

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Watkins dial meter, made by Watkins Meter Co. Watch-form actinometer; plain glass and mask with standard tint; covered paper disc. Two levers adjust calculator dials behind mask.

Watkins Dial Meter

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Watkins Bee meter, made by Alfred Watkins. Actinometer, watchform exposure meter.

Watkins Bee meters

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Bookform actinic meter by Imperial Dry Plate Co., Cricklewood. No.1 bright light, No 2, dull light.

Imperial exposure meter

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Two pairs of blackened & gilt spheres, Violle's actinometer, tested at Kew in 1889

Two pairs of blackened & gilt spheres, Violle's ac

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Penrose Carbon Actinometer; step wedge numbered 1-10; provision for roll of paper.

Penrose carbon actinometer

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Actinometer; 4 tints numbered 1, 0.5, 0.75, 0.25 round rectangular aperture; provision for paper roll; probably homemade.

Carbon tint actinometer

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Watch form exposure meter. F/ scale 6-64. Time scale 1/2-64. Watkins.

Watkins actinometer

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Watch form actinometer. Calibrated f/4-90, 1/500-130sec. Light 6-130.

Watkins Bee meter

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Watkins snipe actinometer, made by Alfred Watkins. Designed 'for open snaps'. 40mm round tin with card and glass lid; felt pads support paper discs. Darken 4 seconds for number 1 stop, single lens, 6 seconds. VPK 12 seconds RR.

Watkins Snipe actinometer

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Watkins Bee meter, made by Alfred Watkins. Actinometer, watchform exposure meter.

Watkins Bee meters

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