Lord Rosse's telescope at Birr Castle, Ireland Size:L: 90 x 60cm at Television Centre

at Television Centre

'The Cholic'

his hands resting on a globe

on the Whitsunday holiday

Bowling Green Lane

Lord Rosse's telescope at Birr Castle, Ireland Size:L: 90 x 60cm at Television CentreStereoscopic photograph used to produce Plate 24 figure 9 for the paper 'On the construction of specula of six feet aperture; and a selection from the observations of nebulae made with them', by William Parsons, 3rd Earl of Rosse, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, volume 151 (1861) pp. 681 746. Study of the crane carrying the eastern counterpoise of the great telescope. The image shows the guide wheel, pulley system and other features;