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Summary:: Robinson's anemometer, recording equipment. Possibly at Melbourne Observatory.

Photograph in a photograph album used at Melbourne Observatory, late 19th century. The photographs show the main Melbourne Observatory building, Great Melbourne Telescope, 8 inch transit telescope, recording equipment, observatories in other cities and countries, astronomers, astronomical photographs of sun and stars.
Description Of Content:: Robinson's anemometer, recording equipment. Possibly at Melbourne Observatory.

Discipline:

Technology

Tagged with:	astronomy, great melbourne telescope, observatories, telescopes, weights
Themes this item is part of:	Melbourne Observatory Collection, Science & Measurement Collection, Positional Astronomy at Melbourne Observatory, Weights & Measures at Melbourne Observatory, Melbourne Observatory & Standard Time in Victoria, Astrographic Catalogue, Transits of Venus, 1874 & 1882, Buildings at Melbourne Observatory, Star Observations & Personal Equation, Meteorology at Melbourne Observatory, 1863-1908, Melbourne Observatory, 1863-1944, Geodetic Survey of Victoria, 1858-1872
Primary Classification:	PHYSICAL SCIENCES
Secondary Classification:	Meteorology
Tertiary Classification:	meteorological instruments
Format:	Photograph: Black & White
User of Item Depicted:	Melbourne Observatory, South Yarra, Victoria, Australia Possibly depicts an instrument used at the Melbourne Observatory.