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Glass framed photograph, time lapse sequence of the partially eclipsed Sun and corona at totality

1912

Three Russian coins of platinum dated 1828

1828-31

Cosmic Symbol Camera

1973-1993

LOMO developing tank

Sections of a sphere

1876

Sphere, bisected, hinged; diameter 5 1/2 inches

1876

Set of silver drawing instruments in shagreen magazine case

1772-1804

Drum driver ex Kew Observatory, marked in Cyrillie from St. Petersburg, No.11

Spermine phosphate crystals prepared by Alexander von Poehl

1898

Surveyor's measuring chain, Russian, 1850-1876

1850-1876

Model of A S Popov's 1895 Lodge-type coherer receiver, 2014

2014

Cosmic 35mm Camera and Case

1975

Cosmic Symbol 35mm Camera

1974

Cosmic 35mm Camera and Case

1970

Mechanical equinoctial sundial

1791-1800

Research microscope with interchangable monocular and binocular attachements quadruple nosepiece and mechanical stage

1970-1985

Ogervosky's geometrical puzzle

1876

Dissected cone

1876

Rigonda VL100M portable television receiver

1972-1973

Engraved Printing Plate

1870
Weights from the Castlereagh Collection for St Petersburg (Russia). Set of 8 cylindrical knobbed brass weights in fitted wooden block with 7 flat brass grain weights.

Weights from the Castlereagh Collection for St Petersburg

1800-1818
Four photographic views of Pulkovo observatory, St Petersburg in Russia, 1876.

Four photographic views of Pulkovo observatory

1876
Weights and original correspondence from the Castlereagh Collection for St Petersburg (Russia). Set of 8 cylindrical knobbed brass weights in fitted wooden block with 7 flat brass grain weights.

Weights and original correspondence from the Castlereagh Collection for St Petersburg

1800-1818
Photographically illustrated album: 'Photographs Illustrating the Residence of Sir Andrew and Lady Buchanan at St. Petersburgh', 1869.

Photographs Illustrating the Residence of Sir Andrew and Lady Buchanan at St. Petersburgh

1869
One of four photographic views of the Pulkovo Observatory, St Petersburg in Russia, 1876.

One of four photographic views of the Pulkovo Observatory

1876
One of four photographic views of the Pulkovo Observatory, St Petersburg in Russia, 1876.

One of four photographic views of the Pulkovo Observatory

1876
One of four photograph taken from the north side of the original buildings of the Pulkovo Observatory, St Petersburg in Russia, 1876.

One of four photograph taken from the north side of the original buildings of the Pulkovo Observatory

1876
Engraving (with plate), of a Russian peasant

Engraved Printing Plate

1870
Photograph in glazed frame of Struve's base-line apparatus as used in Russia (1817-1855), taken 1870-1876. Presented by the Pulkowa Observatory, St. Petersburg, Russia.

Photograph of surveying base-line apparatus, Russian, 1870-1876

1870-1876
Photograph of a transit instrument by Repsold at Pulkovo Observatory, St Petersburg, in Russia, 1876.

Photograph of a transit instrument by Repsold at Pulkovo Observatory

1876
Photograph of an equatorial by Steinhiel, with a Zollner photometer at the Pulkovo Observatory, St Petersburg in Russia, 1876.

Photograph of an equatorial by Steinhiel

1876
Photograph of a telescope made by M.Herbst for the Chief Observatory at Pulkovo Observatory, St Petersburg in Russia, 1876.

Photograph of a telescope made by M.Herbst for the Chief Observatory at Pulkovo Observatory

1876
Photograph of the Transit instrument of the Harvard college Observatory at Cambridge Massachusetts.

Photograph of transit instrument

1876
Photograph of a transit instrument, by the German instrument maker Ertel, in the Meridian Room of the Pulkovo Observatory at St Petersburg in Russia, 1876.

Photograph of a transit instrument

1876
Cosmic 35 camera. Made in USSR. In everready case.

Cosmic 35 Camera

1965
Glass coloured with red oxide of copper. Manufactured near St. Petersburg. Specimens were exhibited in the Exhibition of 1862

Glass coloured with red oxide of copper, as shown in 1862 Exhibition

before 1889
Photograph of a vertical circle by Ertel at the Pulkovo Observatory, St Petersburg in Russia, 1876.

Photograph of a vertical circle by Ertel at the Pulkovo Observatory

1876
Photograph of a large equatorial by Merz and Mahler at the Pulkovo Observatory, St Petersburg in Russia, 1876.

Photograph of a large equatorial by Merz and Mahler at the Pulkovo Observatory

1876
One of four photographic views of the Pulkovo Observatory, St Petersburg in Russia, 1876.

One of four photographic views of the Pulkovo Observatory

1876
Photograph of an artificial horizon made for the observatory at the Military Academy at St. Petersburg in Russia.

Photograph of an artificial horizon

1876
Photograph of a meridian circle by Repsold at Pulkovo Observatory, St Petersburg, Russia,. 1876.

Photograph of a meridian circle by Repsold at Pulkovo Observatory

1876
Original correspondence from the Castlereagh Collection for St Petersburg (Russia).

Original correspondence from the Castlereagh Collection for St Petersburg

1800-1818
Three-component seismograph designed by Russian seismologist Boris Golitsyn (Galitzin) and made by Hugo Masing, St Petersburg, Russia, 1910–1912. The two horizontal pendulums were purchased by Arthur Schuster and installed at Eskdalemuir Observatory, Dumfriesshire, Scotland in 1910; he donated the vertical component in 1912. In 1925 the assembly was transferred to Kew Observatory. Kew staff modified the instrument in 1937 so that all three components recorded onto a single drum, rather than separate ones as previously.

Three-component seismograph designed by Boris Golitsyn (Galitzin)

1910-1912
Engraving showing a Russian peasant (see 1876-912/1)

Engraving of a Russian Peasant

1870
Photograph of the portable stand made by M. Herbst for use with a refracting telescope by Merz (a telescope is shown on the stand) at the Pulkovo Observatory, St Petersburg in Russia, 1876.

Photograph of the portable stand made by M. Herbst for use with a refracting telescope

1876