Telescope (Spyglass)
name: label: maker
content: Fraunhofer, Joseph
notes: label: Description
content: Telescope with an achromatic objective, a four-element erecting eye piece, and a three-draw brass body covered with wood. It was made between 1819 and 1826. The telescope bears the engraving "Fraunhofer in München."
label: Description
content: Joseph Fraunhofer (1787-1826) was a highly skilled optical craftsman and scientist who was closely involved with the origins of precision instrument making in Bavaria. In 1806 he joined the Mathematical Mechanical Institute in Munich run by Utzschneider, Reichenbach and Liebherr. In 1809, together with Utzschneider and Reichenbach, he established an Optical Institute in the nearby village of Benedictbeuern. Fraunhofer became head of the the Optical Institute in 1814, and moved it to Munich in 1819. After Fraunhofer’s death, the Optical Institute was managed by Merz and Mahler.
label: Description
content: Ref: Myles Jackson, <i>Spectrum of Belief; Joseph von Fraunhofer and the Craft of Precision Optics</i> (Cambridge, Mass, 2000).
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: Germany: Bavaria, Munich
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content: Medicine and Science: Physical Sciences
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content: Measuring & Mapping
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: PH.325414
label: accession number
content: 256202
label: catalog number
content: 325414
objectType: label: Object Name
content: telescope, spyglass
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 10 3/4 in x 1 3/4 in; 27.305 cm x 4.445 cm
label: Measurements
content: overall: 10 5/8 in x 2 3/16 in; 26.9875 cm x 5.55625 cm