Credit: © The Royal Society
Image number: RS.9290
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The Great Melbourne Telescope
Date
1867
Object type
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Material
Technique
Dimensions
height (print): 212mm
width (print): 159mm
width (print): 159mm
Subject
Content object
Description
The 48-inch reflecting telescope, designed by Thomas Grubb, seen erected at Grubb’s works at Rathmines in Dublin, Ireland. A workman takes up the observer’s position, sitting in a temporary chair observer. The telescope was tested at the Grubb works before being sent to the Melbourne Observatory, Australia, to become operational in 1869.
Inscribed verso in pencil: “? Melbourne telescope”.
Inscribed verso in pencil: “? Melbourne telescope”.
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