Telescope Mount
notes: label: Description
content: This wooden apparatus was designed to hold a telescope tube, presumably for testing purposes. It came from the shop of Henry Fitz (1808-1863), America’s first successful commercial telescope maker.
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.315158.271
label: accession number
content: 215541
label: catalog number
content: 315158.271
objectType: label: Object Name
content: apparatus for telescope testing
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 10 in x 17 in x 9 in; 25.4 cm x 43.18 cm x 22.86 cm