Telescope
date: label: date made
content: late nineteenth century
notes: label: Description
content: Telescope with a 3-inch achromatic objective, a brass tube that extends from 48 to 58 inches, and a wooden tripod. The "Benj. Pike's Son & Co. 930 Broadway, N.Y." inscription refers to a firm that was in business, as such, in 1882-1883.
label: Description
content: Benjamin Pike was an Englishman who arrived in New York in 1798, and was soon selling optical and other apparatus. Pike’s sons eventually joined the firm, and some established firms of their own. Most of the apparatus sold by the Pikes was made by someone else, and the same is probably true of this telescope.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: New York, New York City
topic: label: Subject
content: Science & Scientific Instruments
setName: label: See more items in
content: Medicine and Science: Physical Sciences
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: PH.321050A
label: accession number
content: 243490
label: catalog number
content: 321050A
objectType: label: Object Name
content: telescope
label: Object Name
content: telescope
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 48 in x 4 1/2 in x 3 3/4 in; 121.92 cm x 11.43 cm x 9.525 cm