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The Airy Transit Circle
Describes the modernization of the Greenwich Observatory. From the BBC History series.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/discovery/rev...
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.
http://www.smithsonianmagazine.com/issues/...
Virtual Museum of Measuring Engines
The history of modern astronomical measurement, emphasis on instruments.
http://www.astro.virginia.edu/~afs5z/engin...
Adler Planetarium - Historical Collections
Collection of instruments, past exhibitions, history department information.
http://www.adlerplanetarium.org/history/
Caltech Astronomy - History
The telescopes at Mt. Wilson and Palomar.
http://www.astro.caltech.edu/observatories...
Churches as Scientific Instruments
Solar observatories built into 17th and 18th century cathedrals.
http://cis.alma.unibo.it/NewsLetter/090496...
The 28-inch Photo-visual Refractor
Exhibition from the Royal Observatory, Greenwich, that explains the history of this telescope via words and archive photographs.
http://www.nmm.ac.uk/server.php?request=se...
Sir Martin Ryle - Nobel Lecture
Radio telescopes of large resolving power.
http://nobelprize.org/physics/laureates/19...
The Astrolabe
Ancient astronomical computer.
http://astrolabes.org/astrolab.htm
Important Astronomers, their Instruments and Discoveries
From the merket to the reflecting telescope in three pages.
http://seds.lpl.arizona.edu/billa/psc/hist...
Antique Telescopes
An overview with photographs of many lesser known telescopes typical of their time.
http://www.antiquetelescopes.org/
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