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Collection: Astronomy

Postal Scale

This is a medium sized set of analogue weighing scales. It has a metal, beige-painted body with a square silver-coloured weighing platform on top. There…

Unknown

This object has a solid rectangular metal base. Mounted horizontally on top of this on a chunky curved metal support is a cylindrical microscope tube…

Ellipsograph

This object consists of many metal rods and bars attached together. It is supported on three legs with masking tape wrapped around each foot. On…

Discharge Tubes

This is a flat cardboard box containing a number of mixed glass discharge tubes. There are 27 intact tubes in the box, and some miscellaneous…

Two Prismatic Lenses

These are two cylindrical brass optical instruments, each with an angled prism fitted inside the tube and a toothed gear around the circumference of the…

Photometer Part

This is a metal instrument on a cylindrical stand with a round metal base. On top of the stand there is a cylindrical metal piece,…

Sundial

This object is a wooden sundial that appears home-made. It consists of a flat square of wood, with a pencil and ink circle drawn directly…