Two photograph of an equatorial telescope by Troughton & Simms

Made:: 1876 in Chatham and Kent

Two photograph of an equatorial telescope by Troughton & Simms, London, used on the 1874 Transit of Venus Expeditions dispatched by the Royal Society, London.

One of two photograph of an equatorial telescope by Troughton & Simms, London, used on the 1874 Transit of Venus Expeditions dispatched by the Royal Society, London.

One of two photograph of an equatorial telescope by Troughton & Simms

1876

One of two photograph of an equatorial telescope by Troughton & Simms, London, used on the 1874 Transit of Venus Expeditions dispatched by the Royal Society, London.

One of two photograph of an equatorial telescope by Troughton & Simms

1876

Details

Category:: Astronomy

Object Number:: 1876-1005

Materials:: paper

type:: photograph and telescope - refracting

credit:: School of Military Engineering (Chatham)

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