Design sketch for the Great Melbourne Telescope mb-width 4926 Queen Caroline

Queen Caroline

and publications such as those of the seven authors of Essays and Reviews

Smith (secretary)

9th June 1974

Design sketch for the Great Melbourne Telescope mb-width 4926 Queen CarolineRough 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