Object Details
- Manufacturer
- Unknown
- Summary
- This is a brass working model of a combination Newtonian/Cassegrain reflecting telescope, mounted on an English equatorial cross-axis on a wooden stand. The model has a 4.5-inch mirror set in a open ribbed cage. The equatorial mounting has a spring wound drive. According to its donor it was constructed between 1913 and 1915 as a demonstration device to raise funds for building a large telescope in Ohio, and was on display in the Capitol rotunda in 1915. The scale model came into the possession of a science professor at Chabot College in California when George V. Simon, M.D. acquired it in 1978. Simon claims that the model foreshadowed the design of the Perkins 69-inch telescope of Ohio Wesleyan University now remounted at Flagstaff with a 72-inch mirror.
- Simon donated the telescope model to NASM in 1982.
- Credit Line
- Gift of Dr. George V. Simon
- Inventory Number
- A19820361000
- Restrictions & Rights
- Usage conditions apply
- Type
- MODELS-Miscellaneous
- Materials
- Brass, wood and glass, bronze
- Dimensions
- Overall: 3 ft. 4 in. × 2 ft. 11 in. × 1 ft. 3 in. (101.6 × 88.9 × 38.1cm)
- Country of Origin
- United States of America
- See more items in
- National Air and Space Museum Collection
- Location
- Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center in Chantilly, VA
- Exhibit Station
- Space Science
- National Air and Space Museum
- Record ID
- nasm_A19820361000
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/nv96cb14c7d-b29e-44ff-b536-f189ab16ac33
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