Holcomb Notebook
date: label: date made
content: 1834 - 1841
name: label: maker
content: Holcomb, Amasa
notes: label: Description
content: This notebook belonged to Amasa Holcomb (1787-1875), a self-educated surveyor and telescope maker. It contains notes of observations, records of telescopes made and sold, and some notes and formulas pertaining to the construction of instruments. Two descendants, Grace E. Holcomb Steere and Eva C. Holcombe Storey, gave it to the Smithsonian in 1933.
label: Description
content: Ref: Autobiographical sketch of Amasa Holcomb, in Robert P. Multhauf, ed., "Holcomb, Fitz, and Peate: Three 19th Century American Telescope Makers," <i>United States National Museum Bulletin</i> 228 (1962), pp. 160-164.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
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.310600
label: catalog number
content: 310600
label: accession number
content: 123587
objectType: label: Object Name
content: notebook
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 7 1/2 in x 6 3/8 in x 7/8 in; 19.05 cm x 16.1925 cm x 2.2225 cm