Telescope
date: label: date made
content: mid 19th century
name: label: maker
content: Dollond
notes: label: Description
content: Refracting telescope with a brass pillar-and-tripod base, a 38-inch long wooden tube with brass fittings, a sliding rod for holding the telescope at a particular elevation, an achromatic objective of 2 inches aperture, four eyepieces, and a wooden box with a hinged lid. The inscription on the brass ferrule at the eye end of the tube reads “DOLLOND 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: 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
setName: label: See more items in
content: Medicine and Science: Physical Sciences
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content: Science & Mathematics
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: PH.335518
label: accession number
content: 321714
label: catalog number
content: 335518
objectType: label: Object Name
content: telescope, refracting
label: Object Name
content: telescope
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 9 cm x 78.5 cm x 17.5 cm; 3 17/32 in x 30 29/32 in x 6 7/8 in
label: Measurements
content: overall in case: 3 3/8 in x 30 3/4 in x 6 3/4 in; 8.5725 cm x 78.105 cm x 17.145 cm
label: Measurements
content: overall: bag of parts: 1 3/4 in x 5 3/4 in x 10 in; 4.445 cm x 14.605 cm x 25.4 cm