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

2008 (prototype)

Clockwork drive, for refracting telescope of 5.9-inch aperture

1829

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

1829

Four-part square section [screwed] 48-inch excise gauging rule by Joseph Long

1821-1846

Six-part round section [screwed] 60-inch excise gauging rod by Joseph Long

1821-1846

One remote interferometer assembly

1973

One linear interferometer assembly Ident.10703A

1973

Swiss movement (incomplete and broken) with chronometer escapement

Objective lens in brass cell of 3 3/4-inch diameter and 50-inch focal length

1850-1900

Graphic eyepiece

1845

Fragment of stem of unidentified instrument

199-500

Small French verge movement

1790

Movement with lever escapement

1820

Chronometer watch movement

French verge movement by Breguet

1775-1800

Modern Geneva lever with independent centre seconds

1801-1900

Rack lever with compensating curb

1808-1825

Centre-seconds stop-watch by Jno. Archer

1737-1738

15-day movement with horizonatal escapement

1831

Small movement with detached lever escapement by Vauchez

1767-1786

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

1900-1912

Portion of watch including verge escapement

1900-1912

Swiss Chronograph Mechanism, 1860-1880

1860-1880

Pendulum watch with verge escapement and cock

1790

Geneva independent centre seconds movement

1801-1900

Stop watch movement

1800-1834

Movement with rack-lever escapement

1805-1846

Stop watch mechanism

1775-1785

Half-quater repeater with horizontal escapement

1750

Chronometer escapement

Chronometer escapement

1810

Verge repeater

1720

Parts from the Cambridge Interplanetary Scintillation Array

1967

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

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

Part of a refracting telescope

Segment from a draw tube telescope

1700-1750

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

Trifilar eyepiece micrometer in brass

1775-1800

Ten test bars for use with polar planimeters

1955-1970

Two lens doublets in drawtube inside another tube

1801-1900

Stop watch movement

hallmarked 1784

Chronometer escapement

1790

Water volume measuring vessel

Clockwork mechanism for Shaw type seismograph, British, 1930-1935

1930-1935

Tapes measuring - repair outfit No.2

1955