Kaleidoscope
date: label: Date made
content: ca. 1873-1876
name: label: maker
content: C. G. Bush and Co.
notes: label: Description
content: This early kaleidoscope has a cardboard tube with glass front and brass fittings, and a “C. G. BUSH & CO. / PROV. R.I. / PATENT REISSUED / NOV. 11, 1873” inscription. Charles Gustavus Busch (1825-1900) was born in Coburg (then in Prussia, now in Poland), worked with his father making rope, moved to Boston at mid-century, became interested in optics, and anglicized his name.
label: Description
content: Ref: Charles G. Bush, “Improvement in Objects for Kaleidoscopes,” U.S. Patent 143,271 (Sept. 30, 1872), assigned to himself and to J. W. Hoard of Providence, R.I.; reissued (Nov. 11, 1873).
label: Description
content: Ad for “The Parlor Kaleidoscope,” in The Publisher’s Weekly (Nov. 22, 1873): 586.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Rhode Island, Providence
setName: label: See more items in
content: Medicine and Science: Physical Sciences
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Vernon and Sylvaine Beal
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2005.0028.1
label: catalog number
content: 2005.0028.1
label: accession number
content: 2005.0028
objectType: label: Object Name
content: kaleidoscope
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 10 in x 3 1/2 in; 25.4 cm x 8.89 cm
label: Measurements
content: overall: 9 5/16 in x 4 7/8 in; 23.65375 cm x 12.3825 cm