1851 Great Exhibition: Official Catalogue: Class X.: Hyam Hyams
278. HYAMS, HYAM, 59 Cornhill — Inventor and Manufacturer.
New object-glass, acting as a telescope or opera-glass, and consisting of only a single piece of glass or lens, in the shape of a truncated cone, having a convex surface at the base or large end, and a concave surface at the other.
Improved Stanhope lens of a conical shape.