Telescope (Spyglass)
name: label: maker
content: Bracher, George
notes: label: Description
content: This telescope once belonged to Francis Asbury Bassett, an engineer who took part in the development of Route 50 through Ohio. It has an achromatic objective, a four-element erecting eye piece, and a three-draw brass body painted green and gold. The inscription reads "G. Bracher London for E. A. Kutz New York." George Bracher was an optician working in London between 1826 and 1840. Erasmus Kutz was an English immigrant to the U.S. who sold rules and other mathematical instruments.
label: Description
content: Ref: Gloria Clifton, <i>Directory of British Scientific Instrument Makers, 1550-1851</i> (London, 1995), p. 36.
label: Description
content: Charles Smart, <i>The Makers of Surveying Instruments in America Since 1700</i> (Troy, N.Y., 1962), pp. 99-100.
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: 1998.0088.01
label: accession number
content: 1998.0088
label: catalog number
content: 1998.0088.01
objectType: label: Object Name
content: telescope (spyglass)
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 11 1/2 in x 1 1/2 in; 29.21 cm x 3.81 cm
label: Measurements
content: overall in case: 3 in x 12 3/4 in x 3 3/4 in; 7.62 cm x 32.385 cm x 9.525 cm