Telescope
notes: label: Description
content: H. Page Bailey was a dentist in Riverside, California, who became interested in telescope making when a cash-strapped patient paid his bill with a 12-inch telescope. In 1932, Bailey attended a meeting of the Riverside Astronomical Society at which D.O. Hendrix, an astronomer at the Mount Wilson Observatory, discussed Bernhard Schmidt’s recently-published paper on photographic telescopes. That talk inspired Bailey to build this f/2.5 instrument. It is the first Schmidt telescope made in the United States, and the first one made by anyone else other than Bernhard Schmidt himself. The mount is made from an automobile frame.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
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content: Medicine and Science: Physical Sciences
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: PH.334722.01
label: catalog number
content: 334722
label: accession number
content: 312745
objectType: label: Object Name
content: telescope
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 52 in; 132.08 cm
label: Measurements
content: overall: 76 in x 103 in x 35 in; 193.04 cm x 261.62 cm x 88.9 cm