Zenith Telescope
name: label: maker
content: Dollond
notes: label: Description
content: This refracting telescope, termed a prime vertical transit, was made by Dollond in London, and installed in the Haverford College observatory in the 1850s. New it cost $200.
label: Description
content: Ref: Description of the Observatory of Haverford College (Haverford, 1857).
label: Description
content: Catalogue of the Officers and Students of Haverford College for the Year 1861-1862 (Philadelphia, 1861), p. 13.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
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: 1981.0745.08
label: catalog number
content: 1981.0745.08
label: accession number
content: 1981.0745
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Telescope, zenith
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall (assembled): 31 1/2 in x 11 1/2 in x 15 3/8 in; 80.01 cm x 29.21 cm x 39.0525 cm
label: Measurements
content: overall: cr7158: 61 in x 68 in x 27 in; 154.94 cm x 172.72 cm x 68.58 cm
label: Measurements
content: overall: 29 1/2 in x 15 3/4 in x 15 3/4 in; 74.93 cm x 40.005 cm x 40.005 cm