Rise and fall of sea levels caused by the combined effects of the gravitational forces exerted by the Moon and the Sun and the rotation of the Earth

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Forrester's Neuralgic Mixture : cures toothache and neuralgia. Never fails. One shilling bottles.

An artist seated on a rock at the sea shore and oblivious to the rising tide. Engraving by H. Rolls, 1835, after R.W. Buss.

Clocks: faces (top), and mechanisms (below) of a Ferguson (right), and a Smeaton-Franklin clock (left). Coloured engraving by J. Pass, 1809.

Clocks: a Ferguson clock, face (right), and diagrams of the mechanism (left). Engraving by A. Bell.

Royal Naval Hospital, Greenwich, seen from the Isle of Dogs, with ships and rowing boats in the foreground, a windy day, a rough tide running. Engraving by R. Wallis after S. Owen.

Royal Naval Hospital, Greenwich, with ships and rowing boats in the foreground, a windy day, a rough tide running. Photomechanical reproduction by Dawsons after H. Dawson.

Clocks: a Smeaton-Franklin clock (top), and a Ferguson clock (below). Engraving by J. Taylor.

Hydraulics: two views of the effects of breakwaters on waves. Aquatint by Neeles.

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Tidal Waves

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Images referencing Tidal Waves

Works from the collections

Hydraulics: two views of the effects of breakwaters on waves. Aquatint by Neeles.

Forrester's Neuralgic Mixture : cures toothache and neuralgia. Never fails. One shilling bottles.

Royal Naval Hospital, Greenwich, with ships and rowing boats in the foreground, a windy day, a rough tide running. Photomechanical reproduction by Dawsons after H. Dawson.

Clocks: a Smeaton-Franklin clock (top), and a Ferguson clock (below). Engraving by J. Taylor.

Royal Naval Hospital, Greenwich, seen from the Isle of Dogs, with ships and rowing boats in the foreground, a windy day, a rough tide running. Engraving by R. Wallis after S. Owen.

Tidal Waves

Images from the collections

Images referencing Tidal Waves

Works from the collections

Hydraulics: two views of the effects of breakwaters on waves. Aquatint by Neeles.

Forrester's Neuralgic Mixture : cures toothache and neuralgia. Never fails. One shilling bottles.

Royal Naval Hospital, Greenwich, with ships and rowing boats in the foreground, a windy day, a rough tide running. Photomechanical reproduction by Dawsons after H. Dawson.

Clocks: a Smeaton-Franklin clock (top), and a Ferguson clock (below). Engraving by J. Taylor.

Royal Naval Hospital, Greenwich, seen from the Isle of Dogs, with ships and rowing boats in the foreground, a windy day, a rough tide running. Engraving by R. Wallis after S. Owen.

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