Grace's Guide To British Industrial History

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1851 Great Exhibition: Official Catalogue: Class X.: John Braham

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289. BRAHAM, JOHN, 17 St. Augustine's Parade, Bristol - Manufacturer and Inventor.

Spectacles, from their earliest invention: various modes adopted by Sir Isaac Newton, Drs. Kitchiner, Wollaston, and Herschel.

Perfect and imperfect lenses.

Lenses, from 60 inches to 1.5 inch focus.

Meniscus and double-convex lenses.

Specimens of Brazilian crystal.

Mode of producing convex and concave lenses for spectacle-eyes.

Improvements on Wollaston's principle of curved lenses.

Model of the eye.

Spectacles without rims; and hand-frames.

Patent pantoscopic spectacles, in gold, silver, steel, and shell mountings.

Double pantoscopic lens, for near and far sight; the same worked in one disc of glass (two pairs).

Registered trigonometer, for measuring and protracting angles from a centre.

Herapath's registered gas blow-pipe.


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