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    Grubb Parsons (legally 'Sir Howard Grubb, Parsons and Co. Ltd.') was a historic manufacturer of telescopes, active in the 19th and 20th centuries. They...
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    Parsons acquired the Grubb Telescope Company and renamed it Grubb Parsons. That company survived in the Newcastle area until 1985. Parsons also designed the...
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    his son Thomas Grubb in 1916. What started as a general manufacturing firm would be formally renamed Grubb-Parsons by Sir Charles Parsons in 1925. The firm...
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    Lerebours et Secretan of Paris, acquired in 1850 and remodeled to 20 cm by Grubb-Parsons in 1898 to serve as a photoheliograph, has been in use since the early...
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    instrument was the cube interferometer developed at the NPL and marketed by Grubb Parsons. It used a stepper motor to drive the moving mirror, recording the detector...
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  • Glacier, Graham Land, Antarctica Grubb Telescope Company, later known as Grubb Parsons Grub (disambiguation) Grubbe Grubbs (disambiguation) This disambiguation...
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  • related to C. A. Parsons and Company. Parsons Marine Steam Turbine Company Grubb Parsons Mechanical Engineering Heritage (Japan) No. 4; Parsons Steam Turbine...
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    second largest in Europe, and was the last telescope constructed by Grubb Parsons in their 150-year history. The WHT is equipped with a wide range of...
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    started ordering a telescope, selecting a 74-inch (1.9 m) instrument from Grubb, Parsons and Company in England. This would make it the second-largest telescope...
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  • Whiteside Parsons in Pasadena, California, and had begun an intense affair with Parsons's girlfriend Sara Northrup Hollister. By her own account, Grubb did...
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  • 1938, the telescope manufacturing part of the business was sold to Grubb Parsons. In 1936 a list of military requirements was issued by the minister...
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    grinding of the 98-inch mirror blank for the Isaac Newton Telescope by Grubb Parsons. (reflecting telescopes of this type need the glass blank ground into...
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    Boyden observatory and commissioned in ~2019 A 0.75 metres (30 in) Grubb Parsons reflector. This 40 inches (1.0 m) telescope was originally located at...
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  • with Troughton & Simms to form Cooke, Troughton & Simms. Cooke Optics Grubb Parsons - contemporary Irish telescope company, founded in 1833 Taylor, E. Wilfred;...
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    John Whiteside Parsons (born Marvel Whiteside Parsons; October 2, 1914 – June 17, 1952) was an American rocket engineer, chemist, and Thelemite occultist...
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    18-inch (45 cm.) Newtonian reflector by Grubb Parsons, electrically driven. The dome itself, also built by Grubb, is hand-operated and made of papier-mâché...
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    were built by Dunford Hadfields Limited of Sheffield and the optics by Grubb Parsons of Newcastle. Originally known as the Infrared Flux Collector, it began...
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    Repsold and Sons, optics (visual + photographic lens) by Steinheil Grubb Parsons Double Refractor Saltsjöbaden, Sweden - 60 + 50 cm (23.6" + 19.7") 8...
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    National Park Service. A new 48-inch-diameter corrector plate was made by Grubb-Parsons in England and installed in the telescope. This new plate produces better...
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    Ohio. It was then transported to Newcastle, England, where Sir Howard Grubb, Parsons and Co took two years to grind and polish the mirror's surface. Mitsubishi...
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    telescope mounting was made by Grubb of Dublin. (Grubb would make telescopes for a century and half, later known as Grubb-Parsons) The telescope objective was...
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    instrument at this observing station was 33 cm astrograph build by the Grubb Parsons company. The building was abandoned just after the Soviet aggression...
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    gravitational lenses. The 1.54-metre Danish National Telescope was built by Grubb-Parsons and has been in use at La Silla since 1979. The telescope has an off-axis...
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    The company was acquired in 1925 by Charles Algernon Parsons and renamed Sir Howard Grubb, Parsons and Co. Ltd. Most of the area was developed in the latter...
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    Observatory in France. The 1.54-metre Danish National Telescope was built by Grubb Parsons and has been in use at La Silla since 1979. The telescope has an off-axis...
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  • California, United States  United States First solar telescope Lerebour/Grubb-Parsons, Kodaikanal Solar Observatory 20 cm 1901– Kodaikanal, India  India (1947-...
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    communities of Tyneside Sir Howard Grubb, Parsons and Co, telescope manufacturer, more commonly known as Grubb Parsons based in Newcastle upon Tyne. RMS...
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    brother of former NASCAR driver, car owner, and broadcaster Phil Parsons of Phil Parsons Racing. He was nicknamed "BP" and The Professor, the latter in...
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    93 m, 1.52 m, 1.20 m and 0.80 m. The 1.93 m telescope was built by Grubb-Parsons and installed at the site in 1958. One of the instruments available...
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    custom-made astrograph and refracting telescope made by the British company Grubb Parsons of Newcastle upon Tyne. It had its own power plant with two diesel motor-generators...
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