Accession No

5358.10

Brief Description

manuscript letter dated 1866 AD, with fake diagram added in the late 20th Century showing astrolabe and planets and nonsense Arabic script, Ottoman Turkish, false date of 1712 AD but image is a late 20th-century forgery

Origin

Turkey; Istanbul [source of forgery - source of original manuscript sheet is likely to also be Turkey]

Maker

Accession No

0091

Brief Description

scales and weights, 18th C

Origin

Maker

Accession No

0148

Brief Description

gunter quadrant, first half 18th century

Origin

London; England

Maker

Accession No

1358

Brief Description

Model of the suspended coil of an electrodynamometer; Cavendish Laboratory; 1885

Origin

Maker

Accession No

2697 also 0990 (?)

Brief Description

protractor, by John Rowley, English, 1700

Origin

London; England

Maker

Rowley, John

Accession No

4527

Brief Description

beam compass, by Elliott Brothers, English, 2/2 19th Century

Origin

England; London; Strand

Maker

Elliott Brothers

Accession No

0210

Brief Description

universal equinoctial ring dial, by Heath and Wing, English, 3/4 18th Century

Origin

England; London

Maker

Heath and Wing

Accession No

6006

Brief Description

plain wooden mathematical triangle; late 18th - early 19th century

Origin

Maker

Accession No

2401

Brief Description

moving coil, reflecting galvanometer, by Gambrell Brothers Ltd., English, 1900-1925 (c)

Origin

England; London

Maker

Gambrell Brothers Ltd.

Accession No

1704

Brief Description

ivory diptych dial, [German], first half 17th century

Origin

[Nuremberg (Nürnberg); Germany]

Maker