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| Description | Sayre Observatory, donated to Lehigh University "by Robert H. Sayre, Esq., of South Bethlehem, in 1868. In the dome of the observatory is mounted an equatorial telescope, of six inches aperture, by Alvin Clark & Sons. The west wing contains a superior siderial clock, by Wm. Bond & Sons; a zenith telescope, by Blunt, and a field transit, by Stackpole. There is also a prismatic sextant, by Pistor & Martins. Students in practical astronomy receive instruction in the use of the instruments and in actual observation." Edmund M. Hyde, The Lehigh University, a Historical Sketch, 1896. |
| Date | before 1896 |
| Source | The Lehigh University, a Historical Sketch, by Edmund M. Hyde, 1896. |
| Author | Unknown author |
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