The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
Prisms for guns a drawing from the series 'Commonwealth Solar Observatory, Mount Stromlo, Canberra'. Prisms were used for binoculars and periscopes. Stromlo's Optical Lens Department produced the prisms. The hands are those of Arthur Powell, an Australian employed by the Observatory at Mount Stromlo,supplied the work-worn hands.
Dr Richard van de Riet Woolley, Commonwealth Astronomer, member Commonwealth Optical Munitions panel, Chief Executive Army Inventions Directorate, Department of the Army, making observations from the
No 9 Mk III field artillery gun sight. Black painted brass tube with areas of gray primer showing. The sight is made from lensatic prisms and features a magnification ring and also a focus ring. The m
No 9 Mk III Telescope made from brass tubing and fittings with multiple coated glass lenses in tube. The eyepiece is offset at 45 degrees. The focus ring has a variable magnification ring up to 16 pow
Telescope, sighting, No 9 Mk III storage case made from wood. The case is painted olive drab and features screwed metal hinges on the opening lid and two leather carry straps. Marked on the lid is 'T
Portrait of Mr. Malichar, working in a laboratory at the Commonwealth Solar Observatory, Mount Stromlo. The artist, R. Emerson Curtis noted of this work: "Born in Vienna, Mr. Malichar came to Australi
Semi-circular diagram of a trench layout displaying methods of obtaining varying ranges from a fixed point; verso: drawing of home-made range finding instrument with details of degrees employed. This