Medal
date: label: date made
content: early 1830s
name: label: maker
content: Furst, Moritz
notes: label: Description
content: Benjamin Pike & Son won this silver medal in 1837. The obverse has a goddess, several children, and "MECHANICS INSTITUTE NEW-YORK / FURST. F." The reverse has "KNOWLEDGE IS POWER" and "Awarded to / B. Pike & Son, / for a very Superior / Mountain Barometer & / Theodolyte Compasses / 1837." The design is the work of Moritz Fürst, a Jewish artist from Slovakia who arrived in the United States in 1807.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Pennsylvania, Philadelphia
topic: label: Subject
content: Science & Scientific Instruments
setName: label: See more items in
content: Medicine and Science: Physical Sciences
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Mrs. David Gregg
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: PH.334870
label: catalog number
content: 334870
label: accession number
content: 312774
objectType: label: Object Name
content: medal
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 2.78 mm x 51.1 mm; 1/8 in x 2 in