Telescope
date: label: date made
content: ca 1900
name: label: maker
content: Broadhurst, Clarkson & Co.
notes: label: Description
content: This telescope was probably made around 1900, and It probably belonged to Llewellyn N. Edwards (1874-1952), a structural engineer. It has an achromatic objective, and a tapered four-draw brass body covered with leather. Its four-element pancratic eye piece produces erect images with magnifications of 25, 30, 35 or 40 times. The inscription reads "BROADHURST. CLARKSON & CO / 63 FARRINGDON ROAD / LONDON, E.C."
label: Description
content: Ref: Broadhurst, Clarkson & Co., <i>Portable Telescopes</i> (London, n.d.)
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United Kingdom: England, London
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content: Medicine and Science: Physical Sciences
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content: Measuring & Mapping
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: PH.333802
label: catalog number
content: 333802
label: accession number
content: 296611
objectType: label: Object Name
content: telescope
label: Object Name
content: telescope (spyglass)
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 10 1/2 in x 3 in; 26.67 cm x 7.62 cm
label: Measurements
content: overall: 11 in x 3 1/16 in; 27.94 cm x 7.77875 cm