Benjamin Pike & Son won this silver medal in 1837. The obverse has a goddess, the archangel Gabriel, several children, and "MECHANICS INSTITUTE NEW-YORK / FURST. F." The reverse has "KNOWLEDGE IS POWER" and "Awarded to / B. Pike & Son, / for a very Superior / Mountain Barometer & / Theodolyte Compasses / 1837." The design is the work of Moritz Fürst, a Jewish artist from Slovakia who arrived in the United States in 1807.