Accession No

1850

Brief Description

'New Portable Orrery' portable orrery and lunarium, by William Jones, English, 1781

Origin

England; London

Maker

Jones, William

Accession No

6651

Brief Description

gauger's slide rule, Everard type, used by Excise Officer Frederick E. Dash, English, 1820 (c)

Origin

England

Maker

Accession No

1287

Brief Description

13 engravings illustrating Tycho Brahe’s observatory, attributed to Johannes Blaeu, Dutch, c. 1664

Origin

Netherlands; Amsterdam

Maker

Blaeu, Johannes [attributed]

Accession No

6360

Brief Description

Dymaxion terrestrial globe kit, including two maps, ‘OUR SPACESHIP EARTH’, designed according to Buckminster Fuller’s 1946 Dymaxion projection, by Jim Knighton, Clear Light Image Products, U.S.A., 2002

Origin

U.S.A.; California; Verdugo City

Maker

Knighton, Jim Clear Light Image Products Buckminster Fuller Institute

Accession No

0919

Brief Description

quadrant, by C. Blunt, English, 1st quarter 19th century

Origin

England; London; 38 Tavistock Street

Maker

Blunt, C.

Accession No

1505

Brief Description

apparatus for testing bubble levels, 19th Century

Origin

Maker

Accession No

6653

Brief Description

compendium with tide computer and calendar disks, attributed to Charles Whitwell, English, late 16th century

Origin

England; London

Maker

Whitwell, Charles [attributed]

Accession No

1110

Brief Description

mercury-in-glass hydrometers, by William Twaddell, 1828

Origin

Scotland; Glasgow; 84 Saltmarket

Maker

Twaddell, William

Accession No

1952.5

Brief Description

flash tube, 1900–1950

Origin

Maker

Accession No

5241

Brief Description

Mezzotint portrait of James Feguson (1710 - 1776), by Haward after Northcote, published 1776

Origin

England

Maker

Haward (engraver) Northcote (original artist)