Records, 1850-1919.

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Records, 1850-1919.

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Chiefly drawings and photos of the company's plants and products, especially the telescopes and observatories on which the company worked, including the Lick, Yerkes, and U. S. Naval Observatories, together with material on military optical systems, correspondence, personal notebooks of Ambrose Swasey, founder and vice president, company catalogs and price lists, and slides with accompanying script relating to the early history of the company.

30 ft. and 100 slides.

American Institute of Physics, Niels Bohr Library

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Warner & Swasey Company.

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Founded by Worcester Reed Warner and Ambrose Swasey in 1880 to manufacture high-grade special machinery and machine tools. They set new standards for the manufacture of astronomical telescopes and other observatory equipment. They constructed, among others, the telescope for the Lick Observatory (1883), Kenwood Observatory, the U.S. Naval Observatory (1893), Yerkes Observatory (1897), Dominion Astrophysical Observatory in Canada (1916), Argentia National Observatory (1926) and the Case Institute...

Yerkes Observatory

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United States. Naval Observatory

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Organizational History 1830 Establishment of the Depot of Charts and Instruments, Washington, D.C. 1843 1844 Construction of the observatory on its present site 1846 Publication of the first ...

Lick Observatory

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