Optical Collection (#11)

Military post using an optical telegraph
A military post showing the use of an optical telegraph, using the daylight to send and receive messages. Date: 1885

Fishing Boats River early 1660s Oil wood Overall
Artokoloro

Illustration, blank CD

Spyglass telescope, instrument designed for observation of remote objects

A giant liquid mirror telescope lies nestled in a lunar crater
A giant liquid mirror telescope 1 kilometer wide (6 tenths of a mile) and 1 kilometer tall lies nestled in an approximately 1 kilometer wide crater near the Moons south pole

Astronomer makes observations through a large refractor telescope
Inside the observatory, an astronomer makes observations with a large refractor telescope at the 3RF astronomy campus in Texas

An astronomer peers through a telescope at the Orion region of the sky through thin clouds near Crowell, Texas

Lunar liquid mirror telescope scale reference
A scale reference depicting an extremely large liquid mirror optical telescope with a diameter of 1 kilometer (6 tenths of a mile) and 1 kilometer tall

A domed observatory, Crowell, Texas
A domed observatory is open for business as a refractor telescope surveys the heavens, Crowell, Texas

Portrait of Zacharias Jansen, 1655 (engraving)
XOS1766231 Portrait of Zacharias Jansen, 1655 (engraving) by Meurs, Jacob van (c.1619-a.1680); 18.8x14 cm; Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam

Binoculars

Italy - Laboratorio di precisione, Roma - Precision Optics
Italy - Laboratorio di Precisione, Roma - Precision Optics made in Rome - produced optical instruments used in WW1 - suppliers to the Royal family in Italy Date: circa 1906

Production and processing various sorts of glass from Plate, Sheet (window) and moulded wares, to Crystal and Optical items. Print c1870

Artists impression of Claude Chappe (1763-1805) demonstrating his optical telegraph (semaphore) system in 1793. From Louis Figuier Les Merveilles de la Science, Paris c.1870. Engraving

Fantascope: optical toy depending on persistence of vision for its effect. Disc with multiple images of cat chasing a bird

Napoleons soldiers defending a telegraph post shortly before his defeat by Wellington. This would have been fitted with the Chappe optical/aerial telegraph (semaphore) system

Artists reconstruction of the scene when Tsar Ncholas I (1796-1855), sending the first message from St Petersburg telegraph station, used a modification of Chappes semaphore system

Workmen building a telegraph station to be fitted with the Chappe semaphore system c1793. From Louis Figuier Les Merveilles de la Science, Paris, c1870. Engraving

Hevelius observing through refracting telescope on stand fitted with quadrant and plumb-bob so altitude of object observed could be noted

Mr Frank Crisp (c1853-1919), English Limited Liability Lawyer one of whose personal interests was microscopy and who acted as Secretary of the Royal Microscopical Society

David Brewster (1781-1868) Scottish physicist Brewster was editor of the Edinburgh Magazine, 1802 and the Edinburgh Encyclopaedia, 1808. His scientific work was mainly in the field of optics

Peter Dollond (1720-1820) English optician, eldest son of John Dollond. Optical instrument designer and maker who worked with his father and nephew in London

Symbolism and modern science. Frontispiece of Ars Magna Lucis and Umbra by Athanasius Kircher (Amsterdam, 1671). Traditional Hermetic/Alchemical symbols are mixed with a telescope

William Herschels 20ft telescope erected at Feldhausen during his son John Herschel s
William Herschels 20ft telescope erected at Feldhausen during his son John Herschels expedition to catalogue the southern stars

Men and boys at Aspley Pellatts Falcon Glass Works, Holland Street, Blackfriars, London, 1842. Note cast iron roof trusses

David Brewster (1781-1868) Scottish physicist. Optics (kaleidoscope and polarised light). Editor of the Edinburgh Magazine 1802 and the Edinburgh Encyclopaedia 1808

Ernst Abbe (1840-1905). German physicist; research in optics. Partner in Carl Zeiss of Jena, manufacturers of lenses. Photograph

Rainbow and stormclouds over farmland with sheep in pasture, near Tregynon, Powys, Wales, November

Rainbow over trees and arable field with furrows, in evening sunlight, Aldeburgh, Suffolk, England, April

Rainbow over hedgerow, trees and farmland, North Cornwall, England, August

A binocular microscope

Close-up model of head of horsefly showing a cross-section of its eye

Slug (Limax flavus ) on leaf on soil showing optical tentacles, close-up

Visible light spectrum, artwork C016 / 9846
Visible light spectrum. Computer artwork showing the visible light section of the electromagnetic spectrum. Wavelength increases from top to bottom

Visible light spectrum, artwork C016 / 9849
Visible light spectrum. Computer artwork showing the visible light section of the electromagnetic spectrum. Wavelength increases from top to bottom

Refraction, artwork C017 / 7065
Refraction. Computer artwork of a triangular prism refracting a beam of monochromatic light. Refraction is the change of direction of a wave when it passes from one medium to another

Visible light spectrum, artwork C016 / 9847
Visible light spectrum. Computer artwork showing the visible light section of the electromagnetic spectrum. Wavelength increases from top to bottom

Parabolic reflector, artwork C017 / 7000
Parabolic reflector. Computer artwork showing parallel beams of light striking a parabolic reflector. The reflector directs the light beams to a focus point in front of the reflector

Visible light spectrum, artwork C016 / 9848
Visible light spectrum. Computer artwork showing the visible light section of the electromagnetic spectrum. Wavelength increases from top to bottom

Total internal reflection, artwork C017 / 7081
Total internal reflection. Computer artwork of a beam of light being reflected back and forth inside a glass block. This is total internal reflection

Diamond sheet, artwork C017 / 7075
Diamond sheet, Computer artwork of a diamond background sheet. Diamond has a high refractive index and dispersion of light

Parabolic convex mirror, artwork C017 / 7071
Parabolic convex mirror. Computer artwork of light beams striking a parabolic convex mirror from the light source at centre. The rays strike the reflector and are diverged

Corner cube reflector, artwork C017 / 7073
Corner cube reflector. Computer artwork showing a two dimensional representation of a corner cube reflector. Two flat mirrors (blue) are at right angles to one another

Eye health, conceptual artwork C017 / 3636
Eye health, conceptual computer artwork

Reflection, artwork C017 / 7098
Reflection. Computer artwork of diverging beams of light striking a plane (flat) mirror. When light is reflected in a plane mirror

Light Physics Diagrams and Instruments. C017 / 3472
Plate from 18th century encyclopedia showing light physics diagrams and instruments. Included are illustrations showing the splitting of white light into the colours of the spectrum

Cassegrain reflector, artwork C017 / 7061
Cassegrain reflector. Computer artwork of parallel beams of monochromatic light passing through a simple Cassegrain reflector

Refraction, artwork C017 / 7069
Refraction. Computer artwork showing light beams passing through a biconvex, or converging, lens. Refraction is the change of direction of a wave when it passes from one medium to another

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