Telescope
name: label: maker
content: Bardou
notes: label: Description
content: Maison Bardou, a firm established in Paris in 1818, was for many years a leading manufacturer of small telescopes for education and recreation,. It displayed its wares at the Centennial Exhibition in Philadelphia in 1876.
label: Description
content: This refracting telescope has a brass tube assembly, an objective lens of 3½ inch aperture and 52 inch focus, and a wooden tripod. The "A. BARDOU PARIS" inscription indicates that it was made between 1878 and 1895. James W. Queen & Co., the leading purveyor of scientific instruments in the United States, offered similar instruments for $175.
label: Description
content: Everett Harrington Hurlburt, later to become a professional astronomer and physicist, received this from his father in the early 1920s. He continued to use it throughout his life, particularly for viewing solar eclipses.
label: Description
content: Ref: James W. Queen & Co., <i>Astronomical Telescopes</i> (Philadelphia, 1889).
label: Description
content: <i>The Telescopes of Bardou & Son</i> (New York, 1911).
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: France: Île-de-France, Paris
topic: label: Subject
content: Astronomy
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content: Medicine and Science: Physical Sciences
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content: Science & Mathematics
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Mrs. Everett Hurlburt
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1988.0636.01
label: catalog number
content: 1988.0636.01
label: accession number
content: 1988.0636
objectType: label: Object Name
content: telescope, refracting
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: wood (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: brass (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 9 1/4 in x 5 19/32 in x 54 1/2 in; 23.495 cm x 14.224 cm x 138.43 cm