Telescope
date: label: date made
content: 1878
name: label: maker
content: Byrne, John
notes: label: Description
content: Refracting telescope purchased for Carleton College in Northfield, Minnesota, in 1878. It has a 4.3-inch achromatic objective, a 64.5-inch tube, an iron equatorial head, a “JOHN BYRNE, NEW YORK, 1878” inscription, and and a wooden tripod. John Byrne became an apprentice to Henry Fitz in 1851 and remained as an employee. After Fitz died in 1863, Byrne worked on his own, making and selling refracting telescopes.
label: Description
content: Ref: John Byrne, <i>Catalogue of Astronomical & Terrestrial Telescopes, Achromatic Object Glass</i> (New York, 1874).
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: New York, New York City
setName: label: See more items in
content: Medicine and Science: Physical Sciences
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Carleton College
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1996.0027.01
label: catalog number
content: 1996.0027.01
label: accession number
content: 1996.0027
objectType: label: Object Name
content: telescope
label: Object Name
content: telescope, refracting
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 183 cm x 164 cm x 86.3 cm; 72 1/16 in x 64 9/16 in x 34 in