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Adler Planetarium - Historical Collections - http://www.adlerplanetarium.org/history/
Collection of instruments, past exhibitions, history department information.

Antique Telescopes - http://www.antiquetelescopes.org/
An overview with photographs of many lesser known telescopes typical of their time.

Caltech Astronomy - History - http://www.astro.caltech.edu/observatories/palomar/history/
The telescopes at Mt. Wilson and Palomar.

Churches as Scientific Instruments - http://cis.alma.unibo.it/NewsLetter/090496Nw/Heilbron.htm
Solar observatories built into 17th and 18th century cathedrals.

Important Astronomers, their Instruments and Discoveries - http://seds.lpl.arizona.edu/billa/psc/hist1.html
From the merket to the reflecting telescope in three pages.

Sir Martin Ryle - Nobel Lecture - http://nobelprize.org/physics/laureates/1974/ryle-lecture.html
Radio telescopes of large resolving power.

The 28-inch Photo-visual Refractor - http://www.nmm.ac.uk/server.php?request=setTemplate:singlecontent&contentTypeA=conWebDoc&contentId=354&navId=005001004
Exhibition from the Royal Observatory, Greenwich, that explains the history of this telescope via words and archive photographs.

The Astrolabe - http://astrolabes.org/astrolab.htm
Ancient astronomical computer.

Virtual Museum of Measuring Engines - http://www.astro.virginia.edu/~afs5z/engines.html
The history of modern astronomical measurement, emphasis on instruments.

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