Telescope
date: label: date made
content: 1910-1926
name: label: maker
content: Brashear, John A.
notes: label: Description
content: John A. Brashear first came to public attention with an 1879 advertisement for silvered-glass specula and an 1882 catalog, <i>Silvered Glass Reflecting Telescopes, and Specula</i>. Over the next four decades, he made numerous instruments for astronomical and astrophysical work.
label: Description
content: This telescope has an equatorial mount and a silvered-glass mirror of about 9½ inches aperture. The "J. A. BRASHEAR, PITTSBURGH, PA." inscription on the nameplate indicates that the telescope was made after 1909, when the suburb of Allegheny was incorporated into Pittsburgh city proper. It belonged to Henry E. Paul, a man famous for having helped amateurs interested in astronomy and telescope making.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Pennsylvania, Pittsburgh
topic: label: Subject
content: Astronomy
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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.320242
label: accession number
content: 241909
label: catalog number
content: 320242
objectType: label: Object Name
content: telescope
label: Object Name
content: telescope
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 27 in x 28 in x 87 in; 68.58 cm x 71.12 cm x 220.98 cm