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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

Heliostat, contrived by the late G. Johnstone Stoney

1895

Model of Narivalaya at Jaipur Observatory, 1884-1886

1884-1886

Speculum Metal Mirror, 1850-70

1850-1870

Circular glass mirror (10 1/2-inch)

1950

Photomultiplier tube

1967

Telescope Eyepiece from Great Rosse Telescope, 1845-1850

1845-1850

model of equatorially mounted circles (Chakra Yantra)

1884-1886

models of Celestial hemispheres (Kapali)

1884-1886

Heliostat by Jules Duboscq, 1850-1880

1850-1880

Catadioptric reflecting telescope

1960-1975

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

1919

Eleven astronomical eyepieces and one terrestrial eyepiece

1860-1890

Circular glass mirror (4 1/2-inch)

1934

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

Silvered glass telescope mirror of diameter 9 1/2 in

1880-1900

Circular quartz planar mirror (5-inch)

1960-1970

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

Grazing incidence spectrometer GIS

1993-1995

Drawing of Lord Rosse's machine

1915

Cardboard draw tube telescope

1751-1800

Silvered and platinized glass (Foucault)

1857-1868

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

1986

Small heliostat on mahogany base/stand with clockwork drive

1875-1885

Model of pointer to the North Pole (Druv Nal)

1884-1886

Model of Ayn Yantra at Jaipur Observatory, 1884-1886

1884-1886

Glass disc for telescope mirror

1840-1870

Mahogany chest of telescope eyepieces

1850-1900

Heliostat by Spencer & Son

1860-1890

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

1857-1868

Optical parts of Lassell's telescope

1840-1850

Speculum Metal Mirror, 1840-60

1840-1860

Primary speculum mirror of 13 1/4-inch diameter

1840-1850

Italian draw-tube refracting telescope, 1714-1722

1714-1722

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

1750-1850

Speculum Mirror, 1861

1861

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

Primary metal speculum mirror with central hole

1840-1850

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

1919

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

Model showing the lay-out of the Cambridge University 5000 feet radio telescope

Model, Cambridge University radio telescope

1964

Circular glass mirror (6-inch), aluminium coated with marked focal ratio of f1.

Circular glass mirror (6-inch)

1960-1970

Telescope "G10" engraved Thos Jones, Charing Cross, London, "3 1/2" O.G. body 3' 7 1/2" long 3 3/4" diam, 3 inverting eye pieces, 1 erecting eyepiece, tube with two powers, 2 dark glasses, 1 brass cap for eye end, finder 10 3/8" x 7/8", in mahogany box with key

Telescope "G10" engraved Thos Jones, Charing Cross, with case

1815-1850

Telrad telescope finder, a naked eye sighting instrument using a magnified illuminated reticle projected onto an inclined glass plate

Telrad telescope finder

1995

Astronomical refractor with 3 3/5-inch (92mm) triplet objective of 45-inch focal length by Peter Dollond, without stand [RAS No.16]. Used by the Rev. Francis Wollaston (c.1770-1820) and presented to the Royal Astronomical Society in 1828 by William Hyde Wollaston. Later given to the British Astronomical Association in 1957.

Astronomical refractor with 3 3/5-inch (92mm) triplet objective of 45-inch focal length by Peter Dollond

1771