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Home / Science / Astronomy / History / Instruments
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- 36 Years Ago - An essay with photographs on the construction of the Arecibo radio telescope.
www.naic.edu/about/history/35years.htm
- Adler Planetarium - History - Collection of instruments, past exhibitions, history department information.
www.adlerplanetarium.org/history/index.html
- Birr Castle Demesne - Astronomy and Telescopes - Lord Rosse's telescope, for many years the worlds largest.
www.birrcastle.com/birr/astronomy/astframes.html
- Caltech Astronomy - History - The telescopes at Mt. Wilson and Palomar.
www.astro.caltech.edu/observatories/palomar/history
- Churches as Scientific Instruments - Solar observatories built into 17th and 18th century cathedrals.
cis.alma.unibo.it/NewsLetter/090496Nw/Heilbron.htm
- Sir Martin Ryle - Nobel Lecture - Radio telescopes of large resolving power.
www.nobel.se/physics/laureates/1974/ryle-lecture.html
- Smithsonian Magazine - "Stars in Their Eyes" - The exquisite telescopes crafted by Alvan Clark and his sons helped make the last half of the 19th century a golden age of astronomy.
www.smithsonianmag.si.edu/smithsonian/issues01/oct01/refractors.html
- The 28-inch Photo-visual Refractor - Exhibition from the Royal Observatory, Greenwich, that explains the history of this telescope via words and archive photographs.
www.rog.nmm.ac.uk/museum/telescope
- The Airy Transit Circle - The construction and use of this mid-18th century instrument at the Royal Observatory.
www.bbc.co.uk/history/discovery/revolutions/airy_01.shtml
- The Antique Telescope Society - Historical documents, galleries and information on maintaining and restoring old telescopes.
www1.tecs.com/oldscope
- The Astrolabe - Ancient astronomical computer.
astrolabes.org/astrolab.htm
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