Accession No

6024

Brief Description

compass set, made by Minerva, mid-twentieth century

Origin

Maker

Minerva

Accession No

0382

Brief Description

3-inch celestial globe, by J. S. Cox, 1840 (c)

Origin

Maker

Cox, J. S.

Accession No

3265

Brief Description

electromagnet used to study the Zeeman Effect on optical spectra, [English], early 20th Century

Origin

[England]

Maker

Accession No

0038

Brief Description

simple microscope, compass type, 19th Century

Origin

Maker

Accession No

1410

Brief Description

5-inch celestial globe, Persian, early 17th Century

Origin

Persia [now Iran]

Maker

Accession No

3422

Brief Description

strip-recording galvanometer, or thread recorder, by Cambridge Scientific Instrument Company Ltd., English, 1910

Origin

England; Cambridge

Maker

Cambridge Scientific Instrument Company Ltd.

Accession No

0720

Brief Description

hand lens, 1820 (c)

Origin

Maker

Accession No

2915

Brief Description

orrery by Newton & Son, 1850 (c)

Origin

66 Chancery Lane; London; England

Maker

Newton and Son

Accession No

1952.2

Brief Description

flash tube, 1900–1950

Origin

Maker

Accession No

1148

Brief Description

solar calculator (azimuth dial), purportedly by Erasmus Habermehl, 1581, but actually a c. 1920 fake

Origin

Netherlands; Amsterdam [possible, see Price 1956]

Maker

fake, unknown maker Habermehl, Erasmus [purported]