Telescope Tube
notes: label: Description
content: This 20-inch wooden telescope tube came from the shop of Henry Fitz, Jr. (1808-1863), America’s first successful commercial telescope maker. The words "H. FITZ / NEW YORK" are engraved in the brass sleeve 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.315158.331
label: catalog number
content: 315158.331
label: accession number
content: 215541
objectType: label: Object Name
content: telescope tube
label: Object Name
content: telescope tube
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 20 in x 3 in; 50.8 cm x 7.62 cm