Physical Science Exhibit, A & I Building

ID: 45578 or MAH 46545

Creator: Unknown

Form/Genre: Photographic print

Date: 1959

Citation: Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 95, Box 43, Folder: 18

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Summary

The Physical Science Exhibit opened in 1959 in the Arts and Industries Building. The exhibit is a recreation of Henry Fitz's workshop, this country's first commercial telescope maker. The exhibit represents the shop of a 19th-century instrument maker. In it may be seen the crude foot-powered lens grinder and polisher, the simple testing apparatus, and a number of telescopes under construction. An animated figure in the background, working patiently at polishing a lens, helps to illustrate the methods by which Yankee ingenuity has contributed to science as well as to the invention of gadgets.

Subject

  • Arts and Industries Building
  • Exhibits Modernization Program, United States National Museum

Contained within

Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 95, Box 43, Folder: 18

Contact information

Institutional History Division, Smithsonian Institution Archives, 600 Maryland Avenue, S.W., Washington, D.C. 20024-2520, [email protected]

Category

Historic Images of the Smithsonian

Date

1959

Restrictions & Rights

No restrictions

Topic

  • Museum buildings
  • Fitz, Henry
  • Physical sciences
  • Telescopes
  • Exhibitions
  • Workshops
  • Museum mannequins

Form/Genre

  • Photographic print
  • Exhibit

ID Number

45578 or MAH 46545

Physical description

Color: Black and White; Size: 10w x 8h; Type of Image: Exhibit; Medium: Photographic print

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