Telescope speculum grinding tool for Lord Rosse's 72-inch telescope at Birr Castle, Ireland mb-code 1239134 whose first incarnation was in

whose first incarnation was in the form of fish

This is a satire on the demand for scrutiny of votes by Charles Wray after the 1784 general election

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with a best finish of second at the German Grand Prix in 1958

Telescope speculum grinding tool for Lord Rosse's 72-inch telescope at Birr Castle, Ireland mb-code 1239134 whose first incarnation was inPlate 24 figure 3 from the paper 'On the construction of specula of six feet aperture; and a selection from the observations of nebulae made with them', by William Parsons, 3rd Earl of Rosse, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, volume 151 (1861) pp. 681 746. A rear view of the cast iron grinding tool used to produce the speculum (mirror) of the reflecting telescope at Birr Castle, Parsonstown, Ireland. The circular tool is shown suspended