Physical Science Exhibit, A & I Building
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Form/Genre: Photographic print
Date: 1959
Citation: Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 95, Box 43, Folder: 18
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.
Historic Images of the Smithsonian
Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 95, Box 43, Folder: 18
Institutional History Division, Smithsonian Institution Archives, 600 Maryland Avenue, S.W., Washington, D.C. 20024-2520, SIHistory@si.edu
1959
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45578 or MAH 46545
Color: Black and White; Size: 10w x 8h; Type of Image: Exhibit; Medium: Photographic print