Reading Telescope
Reading Telescope
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- Description
- James W. Queen & Co. introduced this type of “New Reading Telescope” in 1889, boasting that it was offered “especially in response to the great demand from the electrical industry for a well made, strong, easily adjusted, and thoroughly reliable instrument, at a minimum price, for use with reflecting galvanometers.” The instrument is brass, on a heavy zinc tripod. New it cost $60. The “Jas. W. Queen & Co., Philadelphia” inscription indicates that it was made before 1893 when the firm began trading as Queen & Co., Inc. The scale of this example is missing.
- Ref: James W. Queen & Co., Supplementary List of Electrical Test & Measuring Instruments, Standards for Electrical Comparison, Laboratory Appliances (Philadelphia, 1889), p. 10.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Object Name
- Reading Telescope
- date made
- 1859-1889
- around 1890
- maker
- Queen and Company
- place made
- United States: Pennsylvania, Philadelphia
- Physical Description
- brass (overall material)
- Measurements
- overall: 11 1/4 in x 8 in x 10 in; 28.575 cm x 20.32 cm x 25.4 cm
- overall: 11 1/8 in x 7 in x 12 1/4 in; 28.2575 cm x 17.78 cm x 31.115 cm
- ID Number
- PH.328891
- catalog number
- 328891
- accession number
- 277637
- Credit Line
- Gift of Princeton University
- subject
- Science & Scientific Instruments
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- Medicine and Science: Physical Sciences
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
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