Lord Rosse's telescope at Birr Castle, Ireland Finish:Float frame The sports model

The sports model

a crown placed over a hat

Also showing figures in the street

or the telling of stories generally

Lord Chief Justice

Lord Rosse's telescope at Birr Castle, Ireland Finish:Float frame The sports modelStereoscopic 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;