Object Details
- Description
- This notebook belonged to Amasa Holcomb (1787-1875), a self-educated surveyor and telescope maker. It contains notes of observations, records of telescopes made and sold, and some notes and formulas pertaining to the construction of instruments. Two descendants, Grace E. Holcomb Steere and Eva C. Holcombe Storey, gave it to the Smithsonian in 1933.
- Ref: Autobiographical sketch of Amasa Holcomb, in Robert P. Multhauf, ed., "Holcomb, Fitz, and Peate: Three 19th Century American Telescope Makers," United States National Museum Bulletin 228 (1962), pp. 160-164.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
- maker
- Holcomb, Amasa
- date made
- 1834 - 1841
- Measurements
- overall: 7 1/2 in x 6 3/8 in x 7/8 in; 19.05 cm x 16.1925 cm x 2.2225 cm
- Object Name
- notebook
