Theodolite
name: label: maker
content: Fauth & Co.
notes: label: Description
content: G. N. Saegmuller described this as a "Four inch Theodolite, As furnished to the U. S. Government Surveys," and priced it at $300. This example was made after 1887 when Saegmuller began putting serial numbers on Fauth instruments, and before 1905 when Fauth & Co. went out of business. The U. S. Coast and Geodetic Survey transferred it to the Smithsonian in 1929. The horizontal and vertical circles are silvered, and read, with opposite verniers and magnifiers, to 30 seconds. The inscriptions read "FAUTH & CO. WASHN D.C. No 966" and "U.S.C.&G.S. No. 160."
label: Description
content: Ref: George N. Saegmuller, <i>Descriptive Price List of First Class Engineering & Astronomical Instruments</i> (Washington, D.C., 1903), p. 41.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: District of Columbia, Washington
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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
publisher: label: Related Publication
content: Saegmuller, George N.. Descriptive Price-List of First-Class Engineering & Astronomical Instruments
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: PH.309664
label: catalog number
content: 309664
label: accession number
content: 106954
objectType: label: Object Name
content: theodolite
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 10 in; 25.4 cm
label: Measurements
content: horizontal circle: 5 1/4 in; 13.335 cm
label: Measurements
content: vertical circle: 4 in; 10.16 cm
label: Measurements
content: telescope: 7 in; 17.78 cm
label: Measurements
content: overall: 10 in x 5 3/4 in x 9 1/2 in; 25.4 cm x 14.605 cm x 24.13 cm