Telescope Collection (page 6)

Sea Scout on lookout duty at the coast
A Sea Scout on lookout duty at the coast during the First World War period, standing outside his hut. circa 1914-1918

William Robert Brooks
WILLIAM ROBERT BROOKS English-born astronomer in USA who built his own telescope at age 14. His speciality was comets, of which he discovered several. Also wrote poetry. Date: 1844 - 1921

Science Verus Religion
A group of Italian priests making astronomical observations through a telescope at the Torre Metrologica, Rome, Italy. Date: 1930s

Austrian artillery observer in the Alps, WW1
An Austrian artillery observer in the Alps during the First World War. He is looking through a telescope on a tripod outside a stone-built shelter. Date: 1914-1918

Sir George Callaghan, Admiral of the Fleet
Sir George Astley Callaghan (1852-1920), Admiral of the Fleet, seen here in uniform on the deck of a ship. He served in the Boxer Rebellion and during the First World War. Date: circa 1914

Conrad von Hotzendorf, Austro-Hungarian Army
Count Franz Conrad von Hotzendorf (1852-1925), Chief of the General Staff of the Austro-Hungarian Army at the outbreak of the First World War

Archduke Karl Franz Josef of Austria with telescope, WW1
Archduke Karl Franz Josef of Austria (1887-1922), future Emperor of Austria (Charles I of Austria, 1916-1918). Seen here with a telescope on the Italian Front during the First World War

Festival of Britain - Radio Telescope - Shot Tower
The huge Radio Telescope, visible for miles, a futuristic lighthouse for projecting messages to the moon. It was actually the Shot Tower, an old London landmark

Admiral Sir John Jellicoe, Royal Navy
Admiral Sir John Rushworth Jellicoe, 1st Earl Jellicoe (1859-1935), British Royal Navy admiral. He commanded the Grand Fleet at the Battle of Jutland (1916) during the First World War. Date: 1914-1918

Two soldiers using heliograph for signalling, France, WW1
Two soldiers using a heliograph for visual signalling near Feuchy, during the Battle of Arras in northern France, during the First World War. Date: April 1917

Two soldiers using a signalling shutter, WW1
Two soldiers using a signalling shutter during the First World War. Date: 1914-1918

ELH. Three wise men of Gotham
Three wise men of Gotham went to sea in a bowl. The bowl bended -- the story ended! 20th century

Sir William Hoste
SIR WILLIAM HOSTE British naval commander, depicted on the deck of a warship, standing calmly holding a telescope while a battle rages behind him. Date: 1780 - 1828

Flammarion and Telescope
CAMILLE FLAMMARION - French astronomer, towards the end of his life, with a telescope. Date: 1842 - 1925

Seaside Telescope
A little girl stands on some wooden steps to look through a seaside telescope. Date: early 1930s

French Marshal / Subaltern
French Marshal and Subaltern 1704 - 1730

Emancipated Women
Margaret Bryan; scientific writer and teacher in Blackheath Date: 1815

German Military 1730
GERMAN Grenadier, Cuirassier and General of Wurttemberg Date: circa 1730

The great telescope at the Paris Exhibition. Theoretically the instrument should display an image of the moon at an apparent average distance of about forty miles

Double page spread in a diary for 12-17 August
A double page spread in a young persons diary for 12-17 August. Each day is given a small illustration, relating either to the season, or to the anniversary of an historical event

Mount Wilson, California
150 foot tower telescope, Mt Wilson observatory, Mount Wilson, California, America

Charles, 1st Baron Beresford
Charles William de la Poer Beresford, 1st Baron Beresford (1846 - 1919), known as Lord Charles Beresford until 1916. British Admiral and Member of Parliament."

Telescope Man - Westminster
A wonderful photographic postcard depicting Big Bens Telescope Man under the Boadicea Statue, Westminster. The statue was sculpted by Lord Thomas Thorneycroft (1815 - 1865)

Man with large telescope
A man in a flat cap sits and looks through an unfeasibly large telescope which appears to be installed in his back garden. Bet his wife was pleased about that purchase

Language of Stars 1918
She gazes at the moon and sees an image of her soldier love reflected in it. Three cherubs use a telescope and translate the writing in the stars - Je t aime

French anti-aircraft gunners - WWI
World War One - French Army with anti-aircraft guns and their spotter with a large telescope! Date: circa 1906

Old Salt shows a young lad his telescope
An elderly sailor seated on the end of a weathered groyne lets an inquisitive young lad peer through his telescope, as the terns swoop overhead

Admiral Nelsons telescope and walking stick
Admiral Nelsons telescope (by Dollond) given to him by his Godson and the famous walking stick used mostly in naples. Photograph by William Gordon Davis

British Observation Post; Second World War, 1940
Drawing showing an advanced Observation Post in the British sector of the Maginot line, March 1940. This observer, using a telescope

Royal Navy Captain on the Bridge, 1916
Illustration of a British Royal Navy Captain standing on the bridge of his ship, with a telescope in his right hand, 1916

Giovanni D Cassini Oval
GIOVANNI DOMENICO CASSINI later Jean-Dominique, first Director of the Paris Observatory, who discovered four of Saturns moons between 1671 and 1684

Astronomer Looks at Sun
An astronomer looks at the sun through a telescope, while two colleagues confer at his side (illustration to Aesops Fable: The Monster in the Sun)

The Pleasures of Yachting; a yacht on a windy day, 1856
Engraving entitled The Pleasures of Yachting, showing the passengers on a sailing yacht encountering a strong wind. Hats, wigs

A Look Out Up the Mast
Engraving showing a Royal Navy seaman up the mast of a Cruiser, keeping a lookout for the enemy with a telescope, 1890. In the background some signals have been run up another mast

Place Vendome
The telescope in the place Vendome provides a larder for troops bivouacked there

GEORGE V / T&C 1909
GEORGE V as Prince of Wales in 1909

Rosses Giant Telescope
William Parsons, 3rd earl of Rosse, built his giant telescope, known as the Leviathan, at Parsonstown, near Dublin and with it made several important discoveries. Date: 1845

Heveliuss Telescope
The great 200 foot (60+ metres) telescope of Hevelius

E Torricelli / Tomba
EVANGELISTA TORRICELLI Italian mathematician and physicist; he improved the telescope and invented the barometer

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

Les Exiles De LA Terre
LES EXILES DE LA TERRE (Andre Laurie) Exiled on the Moon, a man gazes at Earth through his telescope and wishes he was back there again

Greenwich Park / Telescope
Sightseers use a telescope to get the best view of Greenwich from Greenwich Park

Mathias Laensbergh
MATHIAS LAENSBERGH Flemish mathematician and astrologer

Observing Room / Greenwich
GREENWICH OBSERVATORY The old observing room

Canadian Cadets
Canadian cadets in action at a shooting competition at Bisley

Fw Herschel / Euro Mag
sir FREDERICK WILLIAM HERSCHEL German-English astronomer

Telescope discovery
Jacob Metzu, lensmaker of Middelburg, discovers principle of telescope when his son plays with lenses. Oddly, his fellow-townsman Lippershey does precisely the same

Ross / Magnetic Pole
John Rosss arctic expedition: Ross planting the British Standard on the true position of the Magnetic Pole

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