Telescope
name: label: maker
content: Dollond
notes: label: Description
content: Telescope with an achromatic objective, a five-element erecting eyepiece, a ten-sided wood tube with brass couplings that breaks down into three sections, and a tin-plated case covered with leather. It was probably made in the second half of the eighteenth century. The inscription reads "Dollond LONDON."
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United Kingdom: England, London
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content: Medicine and Science: Physical Sciences
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content: Measuring & Mapping
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: PH.325413
label: catalog number
content: 325413
label: accession number
content: 256202
objectType: label: Object Name
content: telescope, refracting
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 37 1/2 in x 1 1/4 in; 95.25 cm x 3.175 cm
label: Measurements
content: overall in case: 14 in x 6 1/4 in x 2 3/8 in; 35.56 cm x 15.875 cm x 6.0325 cm