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• Female optical munitions worker testing and adjusting dial sights of Australian design for Field Artillery

• A young female munitions worker testing a prismatic compass.

• S.J. Elwin selecting a glass from a supply of spectacle glass.

• R. v.d.R. Woolley and N. Banham discussing a new project concerning the making of lenses for military instruments.

• C.W. Allen cutting a lens blank from optical glass with a brass cutter.

• E.J. Hartung discussing the glass with Mr Ampt before an anlysis of optical glass composition and clay pot composition test results.

• T.H. Laby, Chairman of the Optical Munitions Panel, examining a military director.

• E.J. Hartung and E. Heymann overseeing one of the early melts of optical glass in Australia.

• J.S. Rogers, Secretary of the Optical Munitions Panel, discussing a problem in optical munitions with E.O. Hercus.

• P.G. Law and J.B. Willis measure radii of curvature with a spherometer.

• Optical prisms manufactured by J.W. Handley & Sons Pty Ltd, Richmond, Victoria.

• Commonwealth Solar Observatory Mechanical Workshop with Staff, 1946

• Commonwealth Solar Observatory Lens Design, 1941.

• Optical Munitions Panel Meeting, 1941

• Optical Munitions Panel Meeting with Names, 1941

• Commonwealth Solar Observatory Buildings, 1946

• Optical Munitions Panel Meeting held at University of Sydney, c.1942

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Published by the Australian Science Archives Project on ASAPWeb, 30 April 1997
Comments or corrections to: Bright Sparcs (bsparcs@asap.unimelb.edu.au)
Prepared by: Denise Sutherland and Elissa Tenkate
Updated by: Elissa Tenkate
Date modified: 19 February 1998

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