Museum: Sketches, Photos & Drawings
A selection of drawings and sketches from out collection:
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Drawing of preparing the polisher (pouring the pitch lap), no date,
R. W. Porter. Gift from Alan Mackintosh. |
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Drawing of Polar Reflecting Telescope, Port Clyde, Maine, 8x6 inches,
R. W. Porter, July, 1914. |
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Pencil drawing of men viewing biplane with Garden Telescope, R. W. Porter.
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“Porterian Reflecting Telescope,” blueprint of design for a turret telescope
by R. W. Porter, April, 1920. |
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Photo of R. W. Porter with the Garden Telescopes at the Jones and Lamson
Machine Tool Company, Springfield, Vermont. |
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Color Photo of Walter Scott Houston (1912-1993). |
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“Bismark Asleep, Ast. Observatory, July 29, 1905,” 14x10 inches, drawing,
R. W. Porter. |
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200-Inch Dome Palomar Mt., pencil and chalk, 1939, 17x17 inches, R.
W. Porter. |
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Drawing depicting how the knife-edge produces shadows, 1936, 12x8
inches, R. W. Porter. Gift from Miriam Houston, 1995. |
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Procedure for making a roof prism, likely dating from World War II,
as Porter led a nation-wide effort to make roof prisms for the war. |
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