Telescope Tube
name: label: maker
content: Fitz, Jr., Henry
notes: label: Description
content: This tapered mahogany tube for a refracting telescope came from the shop of Henry Fitz (1808-1863), America’s first successful commercial telescope maker. It is 51 inches long, 4.5 inches diameter at objective end, and smaller at the eye end.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
setName: label: See more items in
content: Medicine and Science: Physical Sciences
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Mrs. Willard H. Howell
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: PH.315154
label: accession number
content: 215541
label: catalog number
content: 315154
objectType: label: Object Name
content: telescope tube
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 52 in x 5 in; 132.08 cm x 12.7 cm