Accession No

6081

Brief Description

Bacon hydrogen-oxygen fuel cell electrode, of the design used for the Apollo space missions, by Clevite Corporation (for Pratt and Whitney Aircraft), U.S.A., 1965

Origin

U.S.A; Ohio; Cleveland

Maker

Clevite Corporation Pratt and Whitney United Aircraft Corporation Francis Thomas [Tom] Bacon [designer]

Accession No

6084

Brief Description

6-inch lunar (Moon) globe showing NASA landing areas, by Replogle Globes Inc., U.S.A., 1967

Origin

U.S.A.; Illinois; Chicago

Maker

Replogle Globes Inc.

Accession No

4430

Brief Description

uranium glass scale, owned by George Gabriel Stokes (1819-1903), Lucasian professor at Cambridge from 1849, then by his father-in-law Thomas Rowley Robinson (1792-1882), the astronomer in charge of Armagh Observatory from 1823, then by Stokes again, by Holtzapffel and Company, English, 1800-1900 (c)

Origin

England; London

Maker

Holtzapffel and Company

Accession No

1765

Brief Description

gunter quadrant, brass, by Abraham Watlington, English, 1639

Origin

England; London

Maker

Watlington, Abraham

Accession No

2849

Brief Description

tripod (theodolite), by Srbastys, Czech, 1940 (c)

Origin

Czechoslovakia; Prague

Maker

Srbastys

Accession No

4529.216A

Brief Description

X-24 electronic pocket calculator, by Commodore Business Machines Ltd., Japanese, 1975 (c)

Origin

Japan

Maker

Commodore Business Machines Ltd.

Accession No

4529.217

Brief Description

Commodore 798A electronic pocket calculator, by Commodore, Hongkongese, 1977 (c)

Origin

Hong Kong

Maker

Commodore

Accession No

4222

Brief Description

30cm scale, by Cambridge and Paul Instrument Company Ltd., English, 1923

Origin

England; Cambridge

Maker

Cambridge and Paul Instrument Company Ltd.

Accession No

2143

Brief Description

mirror, 1900 (c)

Origin

Maker

Accession No

2570

Brief Description

spectrometer, Browning's Star Spectroscope, attributed to Browning, 1880 (c)

Origin

Maker

Browning [attributed]