Artificial Star
notes: label: Description
content: This wooden device with embedded brass eyepiece came from the shop of Henry Fitz (1808-1863), America’s first successful commercial telescope maker. It may have served as an artificial star for testing telescope lenses.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
setName: label: See more items in
content: Medicine and Science: Physical Sciences
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Mrs. Willard H. Howell
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: PH.315158.270
label: accession number
content: 215541
label: catalog number
content: 315158.270
objectType: label: Object Name
content: artificial star
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 13 1/4 in x 8 1/2 in x 4 1/4 in; 33.655 cm x 21.59 cm x 10.795 cm