Geodetic Transit
date: label: date made
content: ca 1873
name: label: maker
content: Stackpole and Brother
notes: label: Description
content: This transit marked "Stackpole & Bro. New York 1504" is one of eight identical instruments that the firm made for the United States expeditions to observe the 1874 transit of Venus across the face of the sun. It has a "broken" telescope that is viewed through one end of the horizontal axis, a graduated vertical circle, a cast-iron base, and a mechanism for lifting and reversing the telescope.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: New York, New York City
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content: Medicine and Science: Physical Sciences
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content: Surveying and Geodesy
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content: Measuring & Mapping
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: U.S. Department of Defense, U.S. Naval Observatory
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: PH.327719
label: maker number
content: 1504
label: accession number
content: 283654
label: catalog number
content: 327719
objectType: label: Object Name
content: geodetic transit
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: telescope aperture: 2 1/4 in; 5.715 cm
label: Measurements
content: focal length: 30 in; 76.2 cm
label: Measurements
content: overall: 29 in x 13 1/2 in x 32 in; 73.66 cm x 34.29 cm x 81.28 cm
label: Measurements
content: overall: cr7141: 48 in x 77 in x 46 in; 121.92 cm x 195.58 cm x 116.84 cm