Telescope
date: label: date made
content: ca 1800
name: label: maker
content: Blunt
notes: label: Description
content: This telescope, made around 1800, has an achromatic objective, a four-element erecting eye piece, and an octagonal wooden tube that tapers slightly from the objective lens to the eye piece. The "BLUNT / LONDON" inscription is probably that of Thomas Blunt, an instrument maker who worked with Edward Nairne for many years before going into business on his own in 1794.
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: Measuring & Mapping
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: PH.314890
label: catalog number
content: 314890
label: accession number
content: 211899
objectType: label: Object Name
content: telescope
label: Object Name
content: telescope (spyglass)
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: aperture: 1 in; 2.54 cm
label: Measurements
content: overall: 25 in; 63.5 cm
label: Measurements
content: overall: 22 11/16 in x 1 3/4 in; 57.62625 cm x 4.445 cm