Telescope
date: label: date made
content: ca 1840
name: label: maker
content: Troughton and Simms
notes: label: Description
content: Brass telescope with a pillar-and-tripod stand, an achromatic objective of 2⅞ inches aperture, an eyepiece, and holders for a telescoping brace (no longer extant). The tube is 45 inches long. The inscription on the faceplate at the eye end reads “TROUGHTON & SIMMS / LONDON.” The firm of Troughton & Simms began trading as such in 1824. It became Troughton & Simms, Ltd., in 1916, and Cooke, Troughton & Simms, Ltd., in 1922.
label: Description
content: The University of Alabama at Tuscaloosa built an astronomical observatory in 1843-1844 and probably acquired this telescope at that time. The school did not admit women until the 1890s.
label: Description
content: Ref: Anita McConnell, <i>Instrument Makers to the World. A History of Cooke, Troughton & Simms</i> (York, 1992).
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United Kingdom: England, London
topic: label: Subject
content: Astronomy
label: Subject
content: Education
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content: Medicine and Science: Physical Sciences
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content: Astronomy
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content: Science & Mathematics
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: University of Alabama
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: PH.325955
label: catalog number
content: 325955
label: accession number
content: 317854
objectType: label: Object Name
content: telescope, refracting
label: Object Name
content: telescope
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: brass plating (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: bronze (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: glass (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: bronze powder paint (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 45 in; 114.3 cm
label: Measurements
content: overall: 48 1/2 in x 8 1/2 in x 4 in; 123.19 cm x 21.59 cm x 10.16 cm