Telescope -- 24-Inch Bruce Doublet
Subject
Subject Source: Local sources
Scope Note: This is a doublet type refractor telescope. It is also known as the 24” Refractor and 24” inch photograph refractor, Bruce Astrograph, and Alvan Clark Refractor. The telescope is named for Catherine Wolfe Bruce who gave the money to build the telescope. The 24” Bruce was used in Cambridge from approximately 1893-1895, at Boyden Station in Arequipa, Peru from ~1896-1927, and at Boyden Station in Bloemfontein from ~1929-1957. It was designed and made by Alvan Clark & Sons with a lens blank from Mantois. The observatory in Cambridge was designed by Willard P. Gerrish who also designed an electric control system for it, and the base for the telescope in Bloemfontein was designed by J. W. Fecker, Inc. who also modified the electronics at that time. The plate series for the 24” Bruce is A.
Found in 8 Collections and/or Records:
24" Bruce Telescope
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Collection of Historical Scientific Instruments, Harvard University
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Collection:
Harvard College Observatory Blueprints from Oak Ridge Observatory
Series Identifier: hsi, 00002
Scope and Contents:
The Oak Ridge Observatory Blueprints documents the instrumentation used and studied by staff at the Harvard College Observatory (HCO). Comprised mostly of technical drawings of the observatory buildings, telescopes, and other astronomical instrumentation used at various HCO Observatories it also has some notes, sketches, and other related material. The collection includes some plans from other observatories. The collection spans from 1892 to 1988 with the bulk of the collection from the...
24" Telescope Building
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Collection of Historical Scientific Instruments, Harvard University
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Collection:
Harvard College Observatory Blueprints from Oak Ridge Observatory
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Series:
Obeservatory Buildings
Sub-Series Identifier: hsi, 00002
Scope and Contents:
The Oak Ridge Observatory Blueprints documents the instrumentation used and studied by staff at the Harvard College Observatory (HCO). Comprised mostly of technical drawings of the observatory buildings, telescopes, and other astronomical instrumentation used at various HCO Observatories it also has some notes, sketches, and other related material. The collection includes some plans from other observatories. The collection spans from 1892 to 1988 with the bulk of the collection from the...
202: 8"-13"-33" Schmidt Tel. - Bruce Tel.
FOUND IN:
Collection of Historical Scientific Instruments, Harvard University
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Collection:
Harvard College Observatory Blueprints from Oak Ridge Observatory
Series Identifier: hsi, 00002
Scope and Contents:
The Oak Ridge Observatory Blueprints documents the instrumentation used and studied by staff at the Harvard College Observatory (HCO). Comprised mostly of technical drawings of the observatory buildings, telescopes, and other astronomical instrumentation used at various HCO Observatories it also has some notes, sketches, and other related material. The collection includes some plans from other observatories. The collection spans from 1892 to 1988 with the bulk of the collection from the...
202-Bruce Telescope, 1892
FOUND IN:
Collection of Historical Scientific Instruments, Harvard University
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Collection:
Harvard College Observatory Blueprints from Oak Ridge Observatory
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Series:
202: 8"-13"-33" Schmidt Tel. - Bruce Tel.
Sub-Series Identifier: hsi, 00002
Scope and Contents:
The Oak Ridge Observatory Blueprints documents the instrumentation used and studied by staff at the Harvard College Observatory (HCO). Comprised mostly of technical drawings of the observatory buildings, telescopes, and other astronomical instrumentation used at various HCO Observatories it also has some notes, sketches, and other related material. The collection includes some plans from other observatories. The collection spans from 1892 to 1988 with the bulk of the collection from the...
217-002
FOUND IN:
Collection of Historical Scientific Instruments, Harvard University
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Collection:
Harvard College Observatory Blueprints from Oak Ridge Observatory
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Series:
217: 24” Reflector
Sub-Series Identifier: hsi, 00002
Scope and Contents:
The Oak Ridge Observatory Blueprints documents the instrumentation used and studied by staff at the Harvard College Observatory (HCO). Comprised mostly of technical drawings of the observatory buildings, telescopes, and other astronomical instrumentation used at various HCO Observatories it also has some notes, sketches, and other related material. The collection includes some plans from other observatories. The collection spans from 1892 to 1988 with the bulk of the collection from the...
217-003
FOUND IN:
Collection of Historical Scientific Instruments, Harvard University
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Collection:
Harvard College Observatory Blueprints from Oak Ridge Observatory
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Series:
217: 24” Reflector
Sub-Series Identifier: hsi, 00002
Scope and Contents:
The Oak Ridge Observatory Blueprints documents the instrumentation used and studied by staff at the Harvard College Observatory (HCO). Comprised mostly of technical drawings of the observatory buildings, telescopes, and other astronomical instrumentation used at various HCO Observatories it also has some notes, sketches, and other related material. The collection includes some plans from other observatories. The collection spans from 1892 to 1988 with the bulk of the collection from the...
217-004
FOUND IN:
Collection of Historical Scientific Instruments, Harvard University
/
Collection:
Harvard College Observatory Blueprints from Oak Ridge Observatory
/
Series:
217: 24” Reflector
Sub-Series Identifier: hsi, 00002
Scope and Contents:
The Oak Ridge Observatory Blueprints documents the instrumentation used and studied by staff at the Harvard College Observatory (HCO). Comprised mostly of technical drawings of the observatory buildings, telescopes, and other astronomical instrumentation used at various HCO Observatories it also has some notes, sketches, and other related material. The collection includes some plans from other observatories. The collection spans from 1892 to 1988 with the bulk of the collection from the...
217: 24” Reflector, 1927, 1955
FOUND IN:
Collection of Historical Scientific Instruments, Harvard University
/
Collection:
Harvard College Observatory Blueprints from Oak Ridge Observatory
Series Identifier: hsi, 00002
Scope and Contents:
The Oak Ridge Observatory Blueprints documents the instrumentation used and studied by staff at the Harvard College Observatory (HCO). Comprised mostly of technical drawings of the observatory buildings, telescopes, and other astronomical instrumentation used at various HCO Observatories it also has some notes, sketches, and other related material. The collection includes some plans from other observatories. The collection spans from 1892 to 1988 with the bulk of the collection from the...