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Category
Collection
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Object type
Place
Material
Date

Silvered and platinized glass (Foucault)

1857-1868

Heliostat by Jules Duboscq, 1850-1880

1850-1880

Solar eyepiece (Herschel wedge) with two dark glass filters by John Browning

1860-1880

Working Model of Radio Dish from One Mile Telescope,Cambridge

1964

Drawing of Lord Rosse's machine

1915

Catadioptric reflecting telescope

1960-1975

Silvered glass telescope mirror of diameter 9 1/2 in

1880-1900

Circular glass mirror (10 1/2-inch)

1950

Photomultiplier tube

1967

Heliostat with spring driven clock drive for use with table top spectrometers by Adam Hilger Ltd.

1919

Circular quartz planar mirror (5-inch)

1960-1970

Circular glass mirror (4 1/2-inch)

1934

Grazing incidence spectrometer GIS

1993-1995

Sample panel and adjustor for the James Clerk Maxwell Sub-millimetre telescope, 1986

1986

Sample panel and adjustor for the James Clerk Maxwell Sub-millimetre telescope, 1986

1986

Speculum Metal Mirror, 1850-70

1850-1870

Telescope Eyepiece from Great Rosse Telescope, 1845-1850

1845-1850

Heliostat, contrived by the late G. Johnstone Stoney

1895

White enamel glass mirror and box, by William Herschel

1780-1800

Sample radio receiver for the James Clerk Maxwell sub-millimetre radio telescope, 1986

1986

Eleven astronomical eyepieces and one terrestrial eyepiece

1860-1890

models of Celestial hemispheres (Kapali)

1884-1886

model of equatorially mounted circles (Chakra Yantra)

1884-1886

Model of Narivalaya at Jaipur Observatory, 1884-1886

1884-1886

Cardboard draw tube telescope

1751-1800

Optical parts of Lassell's telescope

1840-1850

Primary metal speculum mirror with central hole

1840-1850

Primary speculum mirror of 13 1/4-inch diameter

1840-1850

Speculum Mirror, 1861

1861

Circular Glass Mirror, Silver and Platinised, by Leon Foucault, 1857-1868

1857-1868

Speculum Mirror (dia. 5 3/4-inch) for Gregorian telescope in wooden box

1750-1850

Glass disc for telescope mirror

1840-1870

Mahogany chest of telescope eyepieces

1850-1900

Circular glass mirror (80 mm)

1960-1970

Glass wedge mirror aluminised on the hypotenuse surface

1960-1970

Circular glass mirror (5 1/2-inch)

1930-1939

Photograph of the instruments used by the British expedition when observing the 1919 total solar eclipse in Brazil.

1919

Speculum Metal Mirror, 1840-60

1840-1860

Small heliostat on mahogany base/stand with clockwork drive

1875-1885

Sample panel and adjustor for the James Clerk Maxwell Sub-millimetre telescope, 1986

1986

Model of pointer to the North Pole (Druv Nal)

1884-1886

Model of Ayn Yantra at Jaipur Observatory, 1884-1886

1884-1886

Heliostat by Spencer & Son

1860-1890

Italian draw-tube refracting telescope, 1714-1722

1714-1722

Patent model in brass of a pantoscope, invented by Charles Emmanuel of Paris, patented in America [Patent No. 45,954 January 17, 1865] and made by T. Auvray, Paris.

Patent model in brass of a pantoscope

1865

One of 41 bromide prints related to and showing various stages in the construction of the Hooker 100-inch reflecting telescope at Mount Wilson, California. This view shows the mirror support cell for the telescope arriving at the Observatory on a lorry.

Bromide print related to and showing various stages in the construction of the Hooker 100-inch reflecting telescope

1916-1918

One of 41 bromide prints related to and showing various stages in the construction of the Hooker 100-inch reflecting telescope at Mount Wilson, California. This view shows the un-silvered mirror raised into the vertical for testing in the optical workshop.

Bromide print related to and showing various stages in the construction of the Hooker 100-inch reflecting telescope

1916-1918

One of 41 bromide prints related to and showing various stages in the construction of the Hooker 100-inch reflecting telescope at Mount Wilson, California. This view shows the mirror being polished and given its final figure in the optical workshop.

Bromide print related to and showing various stages in the construction of the Hooker 100-inch reflecting telescope

1916-1918

One of 41 bromide prints related to and showing various stages in the construction of the Hooker 100-inch reflecting telescope at Mount Wilson, California. This view shows the mirror cell with its upper section removed revealing the support mechanism and the water pipes for temperature regulation.

Bromide print related to and showing various stages in the construction of the Hooker 100-inch reflecting telescope

1916-1918

One of twenty six eyepieces, in wooden mounts made by William Herschel and used with his own reflecting telescopes, Slough, England, 1780-1800. Inscribed D8.

One of twenty six reflecting telescope eyepieces, in wooden mounts

1780-1800