Telescope Collection (page 3)

FEMALE TYPE / CROCHET CAP
All the nice girls love a sailor especially this young woman whose decided to crochet herself a cap to let everyone know which is her favourite armed service Date: December 1942

LIPPERSHEY TELESCOPE
Dutch astronomer Hans Lippershey demonstrates his optical device which anticipates the telescope Date: 1609

TELESCOPE (HOGARTH)
an early but elegant model Date: 1726

TELESCOPE, PARIS
The Great Equatorial of the Paris Observatoire Date: 1883

Futuristic telescope for astronomy
An astronomer at work, using a futuristic machine that will display the stars and planets on a table top. Date: 1899

Napoleon at the Siege of Toulon, France
Napoleon at the Siege of Toulon -- this was an early Republican victory over a Royalist rebellion during the French Revolution. Date: September 1793

Victoria Observatory, Saanich, British Columbia, Canada
Victoria Observatory, Observatory Hill, Saanich, British Columbia, Canada. Date: circa 1920

A French Signal Corps with heliographs, telescopes and flags
A French Signal Corps with heliographs, telescopes and telegraph flags. Date: circa 1909

London by Night - Looking for Zeppelins - Londoners take up the highest viewpoints they can to search the skies for these new miracles of aviation

East Sussex - Herstmonceux - The Observatory Science Centre
East Sussex - Herstmonceux - (now) The Observatory Science Centre. After years of deteriorating conditions at Greenwich, the Royal Observatory moved to Herstmonceux Castle in Sussex

Kaiser Wilhelm II, Princess Viktoria Luise and dachshunds
Portrait of Kaiser Wilhelm II, German Emperor (1859-1941) on board the royal yacht Hohenzollern with his youngest child and only daughter

Alfonso La Marmora (1804-1878). Engraving. Colored
Alfonso La Marmora (1804-1878). Italian military and statesman. Prime Minister of Italy. Engraving in The Universal History, 1883. Colored

100 inch Hooker Telescope

Comic postcard, Little girl with telescope on cliff, looking out to sea Date
humorous, fun, funny, comic, card, postcard, british, donald, mcgill, child, children, girl, girls, happy, smiling, young, little, sea, seaside, holiday, holidays, summer, telescope, cliff, looking

Jan Brueghel the Elder (1568-1625) and P. P. Rubens (1577-164
Jan Brueghel the Elder (1568-1625). Flemish painter, with the collaboration of P.P. Rubens (1577-1640). Allegory of Sight, 1617. Oil on wood. Prado Museum. Madrid. Spain

Major (later Major-General) Sir Neil Campbell CB (1776-1827), 1815 (c).Oil on canvas by Edouard Henri Pingret (1788-1875), 1819.Full-length

WWI Poster, The Watchers of the Seas
Design by Leonard Raven Hill (1867-1942), The Watchers of the Seas, the Navy needs boys and men from 15 to 40 years of age. Royal Navy recruiting poster. Date: circa 1915

The Davon patent brass spotting telescope, WW1
The Davon patent brass spotting telescope (War Office Broad Arrow), boxed by Broadhurst & Clarkson & Co, 83 Farringdon Road, London

1916 British Army issue telescope with broad arrow, manufactured by T. T. & H. Limited, No. 11801. TEL SIG (Mk.IV), ALSO G.S. together with low and high lenses, in leather case

German infra-red equipment by G. H. Davis
Black light: the cats eye effect of the German infra-red telescopes and searchlights in darkness. How to see in the dark -- a German military secret paralleled by Allied inventions

Hans Lippershey
HANS(or Franz) LIPPERSHEY (or LIPPERSHEIM) Dutch spectacle maker, credited with invention of the telescope (1608) Date: 1570? - 1619?

GALILEO, Galileo Galilei, called (1564-1642)

Fw Herschel / Telescope
SIR FREDERICK WILLIAM HERSCHEL German-English astronomer discovering the planet Uranus in 1781, while his sister Caroline Lucretia takes notes

JOHN BYRON (1723 - 1786)
JOHN BYRON Known as foul-weather Jack. English navigator and grandfather of poet Byron

Giovanni Cassini
GIOVANNI DOMENICO CASSINI later Jean-Dominique, French astronomer and first Director of the Paris Observatory, who discovered four of Saturns moons

Englands Royal Sailor, HRH Prince Alfred Ernest Albert (1844-1900), Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, Duke of Edinburgh. circa 1850s

Music cover, Sailing Home, by Charles Osborne
Music cover, Sailing Home, words and music by Charles Osborne, performed by Wilton Smart. circa 1890

Advert for Levesons invalid chairs & perambulators 1889
Levesons Victorian, invalid carriages, self-propelling chair for the house or garden, invalid chair self-guilding front wheel, can be pushed by a maid or servant

Mahdist War - Sudan Campaign - Trinkitat - Signalling - Signaller with flags, seaman with telescope, crows nest on ship. Part of Box 244 Boswell Collection - Sudan War. Date: 1881 - 1889

Group photo, Royal Marine Artillery Signallers, October 1902. Equipment on display includes a telescope, a lime light, a signalling lamp and two heliographs. Date: 1902

Joseph Chamberlain as a pioneer, observing an unknown land
Joseph Chamberlain aboard a small rowing boat ( The Orchid ), propelled by John Bull, peering toward the Unknown Land through a telescope

Astronomer and telescope, Herstmonceux Observatory, Sussex. 1963

Fred Curd, watchman at Rye, Sussex
Fred Curd looking through his telescope at Rye, Sussex. He was one of two men employed by the Corporation of Winchelsea to maintain the Look Out

Happy Families - Miss Jack Tar. circa 1940s

Francisco Goya (1746-1828). Caprices. Plaque 7. Event thus he cannot make her out. 18th century. Prado Museum. Madrid

John Paul Jones (1747-1792). Engraving. Colored
John Paul Jones (1747-1792). Scottish sailor. Engraving. 19th century. Colored

Ferdinand-Alphonse Hamelin (1796-1864). Engraving. Colored
Ferdinand-Alphonse Hamelin (1796-1864). French Admiral. Engraving in The Universal History. 19th century. Colored

Observatory and astronomical instruments by Johannes Heveliu
Johannes Hevelius (1611-1687). Polish astronomer. Observatory and astronomical instruments. Engraving. 19th century. Colored

Navigational instrument. 20th century. Museum of History and Navigation. Riga. Latvia

Vintage telescope, sextant and quadrant. 18th century
Old navigational instruments. Vintage telescope, sextant and quadrant. 18th century. Museum of History and Navigation. Riga. Latvia

Old navigational instruments. Vintage telescope, compass, hourglass. 19th -20th centuries. Museum of History and Navigation. Riga. Latvia

Illustrated London News front cover - Yuri Gagarin in London
Major Yuri Gagarin, the Russian cosmonaut, pictured with Isaac Newtons telescope at the Royal Society during a visit to London in July 1961. Date: 1961

Zoological Misfitz packaging, with an Old Sea Dog depicted. early 20th century

Snap Playing Card - Sailor with telescope. circa 1910s

Zoological Misfitz - An Old Sea Dog. early 20th century

Cartoon, Fancy Picture -- Primrose Hill. People climb the hill to do some sightseeing. A caricature of the comic actor J W Hill. 1881

Beetle with telescope on a New Year card
Beetle with a telescope on a New Year card, looking at the crescent moon. Date: circa 1890s

Grand Canyon, Colorado, USA
A figure with a telescope looks out over the Grand Canyon, Colorado, USA. Date: circa 1895

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