page_title: Grubb Parsons
hierarchical_section_title: Grubb Parsons
caption_attribution_description: English: Engelgardt telescope Русский: Телескоп Энгельгардта
context_page_description: Sir Howard Grubb, Parsons and Co. Ltd. was a telescope manufacturer, more commonly known as Grubb Parsons. It was based in Newcastle upon Tyne, in England.
  They were a noted telescope maker throughout the 19th and 20th century, making telescope throughout the World and some of the largest British telescopes, including one of their final projects, the William Herschel Telescope in the 1980s.
  In the late 1800s they were one of the few companies that could make large doublet objective lenses
context_section_description: Sir Howard Grubb, Parsons and Co. Ltd. was a telescope manufacturer, more commonly known as Grubb Parsons. It was based in Newcastle upon Tyne, in England.
  They were a noted telescope maker throughout the 19th and 20th century, making telescope throughout the World and some of the largest British telescopes, including one of their final projects, the William Herschel Telescope in the 1980s.
  In the late 1800s they were one of the few companies that could make large doublet objective lenses
caption: Base of the 12-inch refracting telescope at V. P. Engel'gardt Astronomical Observatory built in 1875 by the Grubb Telescope Company.
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