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Design sketch for the Great Melbourne Telescope mb-width 4926 9th June 1974

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Design sketch for the Great Melbourne Telescope mb-width 4926 9th June 1974
Design sketch for the Great Melbourne Telescope mb-width 4926 9th June 1974
Design sketch for the Great Melbourne Telescope mb-width 4926 9th June 1974
Design sketch for the Great Melbourne Telescope mb-width 4926 9th June 1974
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9th June 1974

24th December 1940

It is thought to be the fastest of the five Prince Henry's remaining

Queen Caroline

Circa 1948

Design sketch for the Great Melbourne Telescope mb-width 4926 9th June 1974Rough elevation of an equatorially mounted reflecting telescope supported by a cast iron frame. An observer is shown seated on a platform at the top of the tube. The sketch is part of a letter written from Nasmyth's Bridgewater Foundry at Patricroft, Manchester to the Earl of Rosse, discussing design ideas for the "Great [Melbourne] Telescope". With a pencil inscription upper left "wood cut width to size of paper". Original: ink on paper. 1852

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