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Telescope (detail)

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made in Kilmarnock, East Ayrshire

Telescope (detail)
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This is a detail of a telescope made around 1860 by Thomas Morton, a carpet machinery maker and scientific instrument maker based in Kilmarnock in East Ayrshire.

The detail shows the maker's signature stamped on the reflecting telescope's mirror retention plate. It reads ' 'THOS. MORTON. H.M.R.S.S.A. [Honorary Member of the Royal Scottish Society of Arts] / KILMARNOCK'. The '1860' is hidden by the tube.

Thomas Morton's main occupation was as a carpet machinery manufacturer. This allowed him access to materials and tools with which to construct his telescopes.

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