Prototype beam splitter for the Advanced Laser Interferometer Gravitational Wave Observatory (aLIGO)
2008 (prototype)
Alidade for plane table outfit by W. & S. Jones
1801-1830
Terrestrial Globe by George Adams
1766
Gold chain for Lister's pocket watch
1853
Barograph clock by Alexander Cumming
1766
Caroline Herschel's telescope, 1795-1816
1795-1825
Reflecting telescope by William Herschel
1783-1785
Two foot geodetic theodolite, British, 1826-1828
1826-1828
Plane table board for plane table outfit by W. & S. Jones
1801-1830
Tripod for plane table outfit by W. & S. Jones
1801-1830
Combined replica sleeve and original ball and socket for plane table outfit by W. & S. Jones
1801-1830
Celestial globe by George Adams
1766
Clock movement for Shelton regulator clock
1768-1769
Case for Shelton regulator clock
1882
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
Divided object-glass micrometer by George Dollond
1821-1857
Brass filar micrometer for astronomical telescope
1751-1773
Hand anemometer, Biram type, 1870-1876
1870-1876
Plane table alidade
1701-1800
Movement with rack-lever escapement
1805-1846
Sunshine recorder bowls, 1891
1891
Campbell sunshine records for 1877
1877
Centre-seconds stop-watch by Jno. Archer
1737-1738
Lind type anemometer, 1870-1876
1870-1876
Positional filar micrometer by John Browning
1875-1900
'Detached repeater' mechanism for making a clock chime
1701-1800
Target wheel used in Accelerator Mass Spectrometer at the Radiocarbon Accelerator Unit, Oxford, 1991.
1991
Double image wedge micrometer by Dollond
1754-1769
Model 'rocket' incorporating a quadrupole mass spectrometer head
1973
US Army radiosonde modulator
Glass discharge tube, for Aston's original mass spectrograph
1919
Prism part of turret type tent camera obscura
1840-1860
Six-fold 60-inch folding excise gauging rule by Joseph Long
1821-1846
Tallies for surveying chain, British, 1951-1960
1951-1960
Clockwork motor and shutter assembly from Dobson Spectrophotometer
Continuous sunshine record of 63 hours 35 minutes, 1911
1911
Campbell sunshine recorder bowl, 1891
1891
Wired-linen tape measure sample, British, 1928
1928
Small movement with detached lever escapement by Vauchez
1767-1786
Four-fold 48-inch folding excise gauging rule by Joseph Long
1821-1846
Alarm watch movement with French verge escapement
1749
Sir William Thomson's Triple Depth Gauge, one of two, 1880
1880
Sunshine recorder card for August 2nd, 1877
Pendulum watch with verge escapement and cock
1790
Half-quater repeater with horizontal escapement
1750
Set of 4 anemometer cups, for Robinson anemometer.
1900-1930