Gold Medal
date: label: date made
content: 1847
notes: label: Description
content: Henry Fitz (1808-1863), the first successful commercial telescope maker in the United States, won this gold medal in 1847. The obverse has “AMERICAN INSTITUTE / NEW YORK / LOVETT.” The reverse has “AWARDED TO / HENRY FITZ JR. / For the best/ TELESCOPE / with improvements made / in the Equatorial Mounting / 1847.” The design is the work of Robert Lovett (1796-1874), a medal artist who worked in Philadelphia and New York.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
topic: label: Subject
content: Telescopes
setName: label: See more items in
content: Medicine and Science: Physical Sciences
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: PH.334630
label: catalog number
content: 334630
label: accession number
content: 226769
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Gold Medal
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: gold (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 1/8 in x 1 1/8 in; .3175 cm x 2.8575 cm