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Prototype beam splitter for the Advanced Laser Interferometer Gravitational Wave Observatory (aLIGO)

2008 (prototype)

Refracting telescope of 5.9-inch aperture, mounted on English type equatorial mounting with off-set lead counterweight

1829

Clockwork drive, for refracting telescope of 5.9-inch aperture

1829

Gravity Probe B gyroscope rotor and housing

1992-1995

Wood piece from bottom of the regulator clock by Cope and Molyneux

1822-1823

Wood piece from Regulator clock by Cope and Molyneux

1822-1823

Movement plates from Regulator clock by Cope and Molyneux

1822-1823

Brass drive weight from Regulator clock by Cope and Molyneux

1822-1823

Target wheel used in Accelerator Mass Spectrometer at the Radiocarbon Accelerator Unit, Oxford, 1991.

1991

Two lens doublets in drawtube inside another tube

1801-1900

One remote interferometer assembly

1973

One linear interferometer assembly Ident.10703A

1973

Swiss movement (incomplete and broken) with chronometer escapement

Graphic eyepiece

1845

Fragment of stem of unidentified instrument

199-500

Movement with lever escapement

1820

Chronometer watch movement

French verge movement by Breguet

1775-1800

Centre-seconds stop-watch by Jno. Archer

1737-1738

Small movement with detached lever escapement by Vauchez

1767-1786

15-day movement with horizonatal escapement

1831

Set of (3) wheels used in motion work of a watch

1900-1912

Portion of watch including verge escapement

1900-1912

Pendulum watch with verge escapement and cock

1790

Movement with rack-lever escapement

1805-1846

Stop watch mechanism

1775-1785

Chronometer escapement

1810

Stop watch movement

hallmarked 1784

Chronometer escapement

1790

Water volume measuring vessel

Tapes measuring - repair outfit No.2

1955

Corner cube for geodimeter range-finder, Swedish, 1977

1977

Part of levelling staff, British, 1915-1922

1915-1922

Centre separating prism for Barr and Stroud rangefinder

1920

Inner tube of Marindin 90cm base rangefinder

Inner tube of Barr and Stroud 2-metre base rangefinder

1920

Sunshine recorder card for August 2nd, 1877

Complete set of smoked plattes

Coincidence adjustment of rangefinder

Rangefinder centre prism, strip field type

Lind type anemometer, 1870-1876

1870-1876

Radio transmitting set for radiosonde

1973

Sunshine recorder bowls, 1891

1891

Lenses for Micromap viewer, 1995-1998

1995-1998

Clockwork motor and shutter assembly from Dobson Spectrophotometer

Bag containing two radiosonde parachutes

1980-1990

Distance Meter for Plane Table, 1765-1775

1765-1775

Temperature tube for Symons pattern soil thermometer

1997

Parts from the Cambridge Interplanetary Scintillation Array

1967

Eye piece lens and segment of draw tube from a draw tube telescope