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RefNoRHB/3/10
Previous numbersC.11
LevelItem
Title'Specification for a Stellar Interferometer'
Date1966
1959
DescriptionHanbury Brown's personal and annotated hardback copy of a design study for a stellar interferometer. Contains also a loose typescript 'Provisional schedule of equipment to be supplied', 30 April 1959, and a newspaper clipping about Narrabri, Guardian, 5 April 1966.

The design study had been carried out by the Sheffield construction firm Dunford & Elliott Ltd. The instrument was built at Narrabri near Sydney in New South Wales, Australia. In situ assembly of the (mostly) British components began in 1962. See RHB/4.
Extent1 notebook.
AccessStatusOpen
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