Grubb Dublin and Grubb Parsons

The Grubb company was started by the young engineer Thomas Grubb in Dublin around 1830. It gradually expanded to the point where Thomas and his son Howard were entrusted to build some of the largest and most advanced telescopes of the 19th century. When Howard Grubb became too old to continue the business in 1925, it was taken over and re-organised by Sir Charles Parsons, the steam turbine pioneer and third son of the celebrated telescope constructor, William Parsons, 3rd Earl of Rosse. Over sixty years the company produced some of the most important telescopes of the 20th century.

Chapter Titles:
Preface
Introduction
Thomas Grubb
Engineer to the Bank of Ireland
The Great Melbourne Telescope
The 1870s - David Gill
The Great Vienna telescope
Grubb and the Lick telescope
Never so busy - the 1880s
Gill and the Astrographic Project
The McClean Telescope
End of the 19th century
The Early 20th Century

Appendices:
Publications by T. Grubb
Publications by H. Grubb
List of Thomas Grubb telescopes
List of Howard Grubb telescopes
List of Grubb Parsons telescopes