Reading Telescope
date: label: date made
content: 1859-1889
label: date made
content: around 1890
name: label: maker
content: Queen and Company
notes: label: Description
content: James W. Queen & Co. introduced this type of “New Reading Telescope” in 1889, boasting that it was offered “especially in response to the great demand from the electrical industry for a well made, strong, easily adjusted, and thoroughly reliable instrument, at a minimum price, for use with reflecting galvanometers.” The instrument is brass, and sits on a heavy zinc tripod. New it cost $60. The “Jas. W. Queen & Co., Philadelphia” inscription indicates that it was made before 1893 when the firm began trading as Queen & Co., Inc. The scale of this example is missing.
label: Description
content: Ref: James W. Queen & Co., <i>Supplementary List of Electrical Test & Measuring Instruments, Standards for Electrical Comparison, Laboratory Appliances</i> (Philadelphia, 1889), p. 10.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Pennsylvania, Philadelphia
topic: label: Subject
content: Science & Scientific Instruments
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content: Medicine and Science: Physical Sciences
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Princeton University
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: PH.328891
label: catalog number
content: 328891
label: accession number
content: 277637
objectType: label: Object Name
content: reading telescope
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: brass (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 11 1/4 in x 8 in x 10 in; 28.575 cm x 20.32 cm x 25.4 cm
label: Measurements
content: overall: 11 1/8 in x 7 in x 12 1/4 in; 28.2575 cm x 17.78 cm x 31.115 cm