Stanhope Lens
notes: label: Description
content: A Stanhope lens is a thick double-convex lens with handle. The name refers to Charles, the Third Earl Stanhope (1753-1816), a man known as a gifted scientist and inventor. Francis West, a prominent optician and instrument maker in London, introduced the form to market in 1836. This example belonged to Spencer Fullerton Baird, the naturalist who served as the second Secretary of the Smithsonian.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
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content: Medicine and Science: Physical Sciences
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: PH.284289
label: catalog number
content: 284289
label: accession number
content: 55865
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Stanhope Lens
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 5/8 in x 3/4 in x 1 3/4 in; 1.5875 cm x 1.905 cm x 4.445 cm