Wooden box for brass pantograph
1790-1819
1 Wooden box, 14" long, fitted to contain brass pantograph, metal weight, brass cup, brass piece and brass stylus
Wooden box for architectural model
1790-1819
Wooden box for architectural model
Caroline Herschel's telescope, 1795-1816
1795-1816
Newtonian reflecting telescope with 6 1/8-inch diameter speculum mirror of 7-foot focal length with black painted deal tube and altazimuth stand plus pine accessory box containing 1 clamp and 2 knobs plus 3 eyepieces. Thought to assembled from optics and components made by Sir William Herschel for his sister Caroline Herschel around 1795 when they lived in Slough, England. Taken to Hanover in 1823 by Caroline and mounted there in its present form before being presented to the Royal Astronomical Society in 1840 by Sir John Herschel.
Desk with two drawers
1790-1819
Wooden standing desk with two drawers, L. hand empty
Box Camera
1835-1845
Camera with lens and metal focussing cover, (deal wood), c. 1840. During 1838 and 1840 Talbot purchased a number of cameras to make photogenic drawings from the London instrument maker, Andrew Ross. This camera may derive from this source. Equipped with simple lens there is also an inspection hole in the lens panel above the lens that was use to check that the image was centrally located on the sensitive paper and correctly focused.