Telescope
date: label: date made
content: mid 19th century
name: label: maker
content: Dollond
notes: label: Description
content: Refracting telescope with a 4-inch achromatic objective, several eyepieces, and wooden tripod. The brass tube, 63 inches long, is inscribed “Dollond London.” A paper label in the wooden box holding the telescope reads “G. Dollond / Optical, Mathematical, and / Philosophical Instrument Maker / to Her Majesty / 50 St. Paul’s Churchyard, London.”
label: Description
content: The Dollond family began in business as opticians in London in 1750. George Dollond took responsibility for the firm around 1820 and shortened the signature to Dollond.
label: Description
content: This telescope belonged to, and was given in memory of, Charles C. Carey (1903-1963), President of the General Radio Company (1956-1963).
label: Description
content: Ref: Gloria Clifton, “Dollond Family,” in <i>Oxford Dictionary of National Biography</i>.
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: Astronomy
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content: Science & Mathematics
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Mrs. Charles C. Carey
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: PH.326101
label: accession number
content: 277167
label: catalog number
content: 326101
objectType: label: Object Name
content: telescope, refracting
label: Object Name
content: telescope