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Wet Collodion Astronomical Camera Made for Warren De La Rue, by Ilford, London, c.1854

Inventory Number 81324


Acknowledgement: © History of Science Museum, University of Oxford, inv.81324

Item type
Object
Provenance
Transferred from the University Observatory, Oxford, in 1934.
Object type
Astronomical camera
Inventory No
81324
Accession Number
1934-9

Description

Astronomical camera made for Warren De la Rue to take photographs of the moon by means of wet-collodion photography. It was attached to his 13-inch reflecting telescope (73180, etc), probably the first telescope specially designed for astronomical photography. There are two other cameras associated with the telescope.