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
Gold chain for Lister's pocket watch
1853
Barograph clock by Alexander Cumming
1766
Caroline Herschel's telescope, 1795-1816
1795-1825
Terrestrial Globe by George Adams
1766
Reflecting telescope by William Herschel
1783-1785
Clock movement for Shelton regulator clock
1768-1769
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
Refracting telescope of 5.9-inch aperture, mounted on English type equatorial mounting with off-set lead counterweight
1829
Celestial globe by George Adams
1766
Case for Shelton regulator clock
1882
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
Sunshine recorder bowls, 1891
1891
Movement with rack-lever escapement
1805-1846
Plane table alidade
1701-1800
Campbell sunshine records for 1877
1877
Centre-seconds stop-watch by Jno. Archer
1737-1738
Hand anemometer, Biram type, 1870-1876
1870-1876
Target wheel used in Accelerator Mass Spectrometer at the Radiocarbon Accelerator Unit, Oxford, 1991.
1991
Glass discharge tube, for Aston's original mass spectrograph
1919
'Detached repeater' mechanism for making a clock chime
1701-1800
US Army radiosonde modulator
Positional filar micrometer by John Browning
1875-1900
Clockwork motor and shutter assembly from Dobson Spectrophotometer
Lind type anemometer, 1870-1876
1870-1876
Four-fold 48-inch folding excise gauging rule by Joseph Long
1821-1846
Wired-linen tape measure sample, British, 1928
1928
Continuous sunshine record of 63 hours 35 minutes, 1911
1911
Prism part of turret type tent camera obscura
1840-1860
Six-fold 60-inch folding excise gauging rule by Joseph Long
1821-1846
Campbell sunshine recorder bowl, 1891
1891
Sunshine recorder card for August 2nd, 1877
Alarm watch movement with French verge escapement
1749
Double image wedge micrometer by Dollond
1754-1769
Tallies for surveying chain, British, 1951-1960
1951-1960
Small movement with detached lever escapement by Vauchez
1767-1786
Pendulum watch with verge escapement and cock
1790
Chronometer escapement
1810
Set of 4 anemometer cups, for Robinson anemometer.
1900-1930
Coincidence adjustment of rangefinder
Nameplate for bench mark, British, 1914
1914