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Vernier for De La Rue Telescope with Box

Inventory Number 11147


Acknowledgement: © History of Science Museum, University of Oxford, inv.11147

Subject
Telescopes
Item type
Object
Provenance
Transferred from the University Observatory in 1934.
Object type
Telescope
Inventory No
11147
Accession Number
1934-9

Description

Vernier for the De La Rue telescope stored in a cardboard box.

In cardboard box- note on inside says "Vernier of de la Rue RA circle under the Polar Axis [Removed, as the guiding {tel?} might touch it] 7AB"

scale 0-60 degrees