Telescope
date: label: date made
content: mid 19th century
name: label: maker
content: Cutts, John Priston
notes: label: Description
content: This brass telescope has an achromatic objective of about 2 inches aperture and two eyepieces (one marked “Astronomical Eye Piece”). The tube extends from 12.5 to 44 inches. The outer tube is covered with wood. The pillar-and-tripod base has inward-facing feet. The “J. P. Cutts London Warranted” inscription refers to John Priston Cutts, an optician who worked in London from 1822 to 1841.
label: Description
content: The telescope fits into a walnut case lined with velvet. A brass inlay on the box reads: “James Radcliffe Architect Huddersfield.”
label: Description
content: Ref: Gloria Clifton, <i>Directory of British Scientific Instrument Makers 1550-1851</i> (London, 1995), p. 75.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United Kingdom: England, London
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content: Medicine and Science: Physical Sciences
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content: Astronomy
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content: Science & Mathematics
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: PH.329794
label: catalog number
content: 329794
label: accession number
content: 286914
objectType: label: Object Name
content: telescope,
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall in case: 3 3/4 in x 17 3/4 in x 6 7/8 in; 9.525 cm x 45.085 cm x 17.4625 cm