Telescope
date: label: Date made
content: 1931-1936
name: label: maker
content: Rasmussen, Martin N.
notes: label: Description
content: This reflecting telescope, glorious in its over-design, is the work of Martin Nielsen Rasmussen (1896-1988), a Danish machinist with an engineering degree from the University of Copenhagen who came to the U.S. in 1923. Living Tacoma, Washington during the Depression, Rasmussen scrounged the bits and pieces needed to build this telescope. The primary mirror (12.5" aperture) was once a porthole, the large gears were automobile flywheels (purchased for 25 cents each), and the finders are surplus military optics. When completed in 1936, this was one of the largest and finest telescopes in the Pacific Northwest.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
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: 1982.0789.01
label: accession number
content: 1982.0789
label: catalog number
content: 1982.0789.01
label: catalog number
content: 1982.0789.01
objectType: label: Object Name
content: telescope