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Husbands, Henry (fl. 1870-1890)

Title
Husbands, Henry (fl. 1870-1890)
Repository
Powerhouse Museum
Reference
98/187/2
Date Range
1870 - 1913
Description

Papers of Henry Husbands, optician and maker of scientific instruments of Bristol, England. Includes correspondence with theodolite designer William Ellis Metford, with noted English engineers Henry Marc Brunel and William Froude re theodolites to be made for them and with the Surveyor-General of New South Wales, Philip Adams, re instruments required for the trigonometrical survey of NSW. Also legal papers re the business interests of his optician sons William Samuel Husbands and George Frederick Husbands in Melbourne.

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