Telescope
date: label: date made
content: 1805 - 1824
name: label: maker
content: Troughton, Edward
notes: label: Description
content: Brass telescope with a 3.5 inch achromatic objective, three eyepieces, finder, two telescoping braces, handles for movement in altitude and azimuth, and a pillar-and-tripod stand. The tube is 39.5 inches long. The “TROUGHTON LONDON” inscription on the faceplate is that of Edward Troughton, a noted optical and mathematical instrument maker who began working on his own in 1805. Troughton took a partner in 1824 and began trading as Troughton & Simms.
label: Description
content: The telescope fits into a mahogany case with brass hardware. The attached shipping labels refer to Dr. W. H. Fishburn, Dr. Henry Van Bergen, and J. C. Leeds.
label: Description
content: Ref: A. W. Skempton and Joyce Brown, “John and Edward Troughton, Mathematical Instrument Makers,” <i>Notes and Records of the Royal Society of London</i> 26 (1971): 233-262.
label: Description
content: Anita McConnell, “Edward Troughton,” in <i>Oxford Dictionary of National Biography</i>.
label: Description
content: Anita McConnell, <i>Instrument Makers to the World. A History of Cooke, Troughton & Simms</i> (York, 1992).
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: Science & Mathematics
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: John C. Leeds, Jr. and Mary E. Leeds
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1983.0088.001
label: catalog number
content: 1983.0088.001
label: accession number
content: 1983.0088
objectType: label: Object Name
content: telescope
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall in case: 6 in x 46 1/2 in x 11 in; 15.24 cm x 118.11 cm x 27.94 cm