Objective Lens
name: label: maker
content: Pistor & Martins
notes: label: Description
content: An astronomical transit instrument made by Pistor & Martins, of Berlin, was installed in the U.S. Naval Observatory in Washington, D.C., in 1861, and moved to the new observatory site in the 1890s. The is the 9-inch aperture objective lens from that instrument.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: Germany: Schleswig-Holstein, Berlin
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: 2005.0172.04
label: accession number
content: 2005.0172
label: catalog number
content: 2005.0172.04
objectType: label: Object Name
content: objective lens
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 4 3/4 in x 12 3/4 in; 12.065 cm x 32.385 cm
label: Measurements
content: overall: 4 1/2 in x 13 1/2 in; 11.43 cm x 34.29 cm