Testimony of the Brass Telescope at the Kensington Observatory
I was forged in Birmingham in the year of Our Lord 1856, in a workshop that smelled of coal smoke and polishing compound. My tube was drawn from a single ingot of brass, my lenses ground by a man who had lost three fingers to the grinding wheel and considered the sacrifice acceptable. I was shipped to London in a crate lined with straw and installed in a private observatory on the second floor...
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