Reading Telescope
date: label: date made
content: around 1890
name: label: maker
content: Societe Genevoise d’Instruments de Physique
notes: label: Description
content: An ivory tag on the base of this instrument reads “SOCIETE GENEVOISE / Pour la Construction / D’Instruments de Physique / GENEVE.” The firm referred to this as a “Pointing Telescope with graduated paper scale to observe mirror instruments.”
label: Description
content: Ref: Societe Genevoise Pour la Construction d’Instruments de Physique et de Mechanique, <i>Illustrated Price List of Physical and Mechanical Instruments</i> (Geneva, 1900), p. 44.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: Switzerland: Genève, Geneva
topic: label: Subject
content: Science & Scientific Instruments
setName: label: See more items in
content: Medicine and Science: Physical Sciences
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Bowdoin College, Department of Physics
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1992.0477.03.1
label: catalog number
content: 1992.0477.03.1
label: accession number
content: 1992.0477
objectType: label: Object Name
content: pointing telescope
label: Object Name
content: reading telescope
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: average spatial: 28.5 cm x 23.8 cm x 21 cm; 11 7/32 in x 9 3/8 in x 8 9/32 in
label: Measurements
content: overall: 11 5/16 in x 8 1/4 in x 9 5/8 in; 28.73375 cm x 20.955 cm x 24.4475 cm