lens grinding/polishing tool
notes: label: Description
content: Circular iron tool from the shop of Henry Fitz (1808-1863), America’s first successful commercial telescope maker. It was preseumably used to figure lenses.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
setName: label: See more items in
content: Medicine and Science: Physical Sciences
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Mrs. Willard H. Howell
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: PH.315158.336
label: catalog number
content: 315158.336
label: accession number
content: 215541
objectType: label: Object Name
content: lens grinding/polishing tool
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 5/8 in x 1 5/8 in; 1.5875 cm x 4.1275 cm