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
Parts from the Cambridge Interplanetary Scintillation Array
1967
Anemometer, Robinson type
Gravity Probe B gyroscope rotor and housing
1992-1995
Brass filar micrometer for astronomical telescope
1751-1773
Spectroscope of type used by Kirchhoff & Bunsen
1880
Divided object-glass micrometer by George Dollond
1821-1857
Plane table alidade
1701-1800
Movement with rack-lever escapement
1805-1846
Campbell sunshine records for 1877
1877
Hand anemometer, Biram type, 1870-1876
1870-1876
Prism part of turret type tent camera obscura
1840-1860
Sunshine recorder bowls, 1891
1891
Centre-seconds stop-watch by Jno. Archer
1737-1738
Lind type anemometer, 1870-1876
1870-1876
Glass discharge tube, for Aston's original mass spectrograph
1919
Double image wedge micrometer by Dollond
1754-1769
Target wheel used in Accelerator Mass Spectrometer at the Radiocarbon Accelerator Unit, Oxford, 1991.
1991
Sir William Thomson's Triple Depth Gauge, one of two, 1880
1880
Positional filar micrometer by John Browning
1875-1900
Six-fold 60-inch folding excise gauging rule by Joseph Long
1821-1846
'Detached repeater' mechanism for making a clock chime
1701-1800
US Army radiosonde modulator
Campbell sunshine recorder bowl, 1891
1891
Video monitor for microdensitometer, 1978
1978
Model 'rocket' incorporating a quadrupole mass spectrometer head
1973
Tallies for surveying chain, British, 1951-1960
1951-1960
Wired-linen tape measure sample, British, 1928
1928
Continuous sunshine record of 63 hours 35 minutes, 1911
1911
Clockwork motor and shutter assembly from Dobson Spectrophotometer
Split-lens eyepiece micrometer
1870-1874
Four-fold 48-inch folding excise gauging rule by Joseph Long
1821-1846
French verge movement by Breguet
1775-1800
Small movement with detached lever escapement by Vauchez
1767-1786
Half-quater repeater with horizontal escapement
1750
Set of 4 anemometer cups, for Robinson anemometer.
1900-1930
Distance Meter for Plane Table, 1765-1775
1765-1775
Alarm watch movement with French verge escapement
1749
Sunshine recorder card for August 2nd, 1877
Pendulum watch with verge escapement and cock
1790
Chronometer escapement
1810
Spherical glass lens for sunshine recorder, 1857
1857
Scintillation crystal in cardboard packaging
1961
One remote interferometer assembly
1973
Nameplate for bench mark, British, 1914
1914
Clockwork mechanism for Shaw type seismograph, British, 1930-1935
1930-1935
Part of levelling staff, British, 1915-1922
1915-1922
Movement plates from Regulator clock by Cope and Molyneux
1822-1823