Telescopes Collection

Galileos Telescope
Galileos telescope

Optique Telescope / Didero
An optique telescope

Advertisement, Thomas Harris, Opticians to the Royal Family
Advertisement, Thomas Harris & Son, Opticians to the Royal Family. 1841

Herschels Telescope
Herschels telescope

Syntax Star-Gazing
Dr Syntax shows a lady the stars through a telescope, while the butler trips over a dog on the stairs and drops his tray of crockery

Newtons Small Reflector
Sir Isaac Newtons small Reflector

Lippersheys Lenses
The legendary account of the invention of the telescope : Hans Lippersheys apprentices, playing with lenses, happen to hold two of them up together - the rest is history

Quadrant / Diderot / 1760
An astronomical quadrant

Royal Institution Christmas Lecture - Hartridge
Christmas lectures for children at the Royal Institution: Professor Hamilton Hartridge who lectured on Colours, and How To See Them, showing a cat s-eye telescope, 1946. Date: 1946

America - Battle Of Yorktown
George Washington and Jean-Baptiste de Rochambeau Before The Trenches in Yorktown During The American War of Independence 1781

Greenwich Observatory - Great Equatorial
The great equatorial telescope in the dome, Greenwich Observatory. 1880

Saturn and his rings! only a penny 1856
Street telescope exhibitor in London. Attracting passers by to have a look through the telescope on a clear night for a penny. Date: 1856

Pasadena, California, USA - Mount Wilson Observatory Date: 1946

Greenwich Observatory - Great Equatorial 1861
The Great Equatorial telescope in the dome, Greenwich Observatory. Date: 1861

LORD ROSSES TELESCOPE
Built by the 3rd Earl of Rosse in 1842 and known as the Leviathan of Parsonstown. It was the largest telescope in the world for three-quarters of a century. Date: 1888

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

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

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

Two astronomers on a Christmas card
Two astronomers with their telescopes on a Christmas card by Ernest Griset, observing the moon and stars. Date: circa 1890s

Astronomical telescope at the Paris Observatory, 1926
The Equatorial Telescope at Paris Observatory. Date: 1926

Three men at a shooting range, with rifles, and telescopes on tripods. Date: circa 1930s

HERSCHEL, Sir Frederick William (1738-1822). German astronomer, technical expert, and composer. He discovered of the planet Uranus. Oil

SCHEINER, Christoph (1575-1650). Physicist and astronomer in Ingolstadt. Projecting the image of the Sun through a refracting telescope on to a screen in order to study sunpots. Engraving

HERSCHEL, William. German astronomer
HERSCHEL, Sir Frederick William (1738-1822). German astronomer, technical expert, and composer. He discovered of the planet Uranus. Engraving

Admiring view from second platform of the Eiffel Tower
People looking at the view through telescopes and binoculars from the second platform of the Eiffel Tower (a height of 380 feet)

Bavarian machine-gun detachment of the German army, 1914
Bavarian machine-gun detachment of the German army, carrying telescopes and range-finders. Date: 1914

Display of the Arts and Sciences - Experiments
A general display of the Arts and Sciences. Frontipiece plate, showing a wide variety of scientific experiments and demonstrations taking place

Waiting to see the Zeps zip by Fish
Waiting to see the " Zeps" zip. An exciting and emotional pastime which is very popular these mild evenings. The telescopes should be gazed through upside-down to emphasise the distance of

Sir Howard Grubb
SIR HOWARD GRUBB Irish inventor and manufacturer of telescopes and other scientific instruments, famous for inventing the periscope. Date: 1844 - 1931

Johannes Hevelius depicted in his nightclothes looking at the sky through his telescope in his observatory in Gdansk.. From: Selenographia | Johannis Hevelii Selenographia, sive

Women floating in the air by the use of parasols with large butterflies attached, and wings on their shoes, gazed at from the ground by men with lorgnettes and telescopes. circa 18th century

Mounting the proposed 4 feet apeture reflecting telescope
Design for equatorially mounting the proposed 4 feet apeture reflecting telescope, side elevation Date: 1853

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

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

Emigrants sighting land, 1871
Engraving showing a scene on the deck of an emigrant ship, as the passengers sight land, 1871. In the foreground a lady is sewing and a family with very young children look anxiously towards land

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

Solar Eclipse / Spain 1860
The solar eclipse at Aguilar, Spain

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

Chicago Exhibition - 7
The Yerkes telescope is an impressive exhibit at the Chicago Exhibition, 1893

Foucaults Telescope
Leon Foucaults telescope, constructed in Paris by Secretan

Herschel / Telescope / 1863
William Herschels 40 foot telescope as it was in 1863, Herschel House, Slough

Megnie / Telescope / Diderot
Megnies Equatorial telescope

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