Theodolite
name: label: maker
content: Fauth & Co.
notes: label: Description
content: This 8–inch theodolite was "especially adapted for triangulation." The "FAUTH & CO. WASHN D.C. No 1993" inscription indicates that it was made between 1887, when Saegmuller began putting serial numbers on Fauth instruments, and 1905, when Fauth & Co. went out of business. The edge of the horizontal circle is beveled, graduated, and read by opposite micrometer microscopes to single seconds. It belonged to the University of Missouri at Columbia. New, it cost $450.
label: Description
content: Ref: George N. Saegmuller, <i>Descriptive Price–List of First–Class Engineering & Astronomical Instruments</i> (Washington, D.C., 1892), p. 50.
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: University of Missouri-Columbia, Department of Civil Engineering
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: PH.333630
label: catalog number
content: 333630
label: accession number
content: 300659
objectType: label: Object Name
content: theodolite (geodetic)
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 13 1/2 in; 34.29 cm
label: Measurements
content: horizontal circle: 8 in; 20.32 cm
label: Measurements
content: telescope: 18 in; 45.72 cm
label: Measurements
content: striding level: 6 in; 15.24 cm
label: Measurements
content: overall in case: 16 1/4 in x 17 1/4 in x 15 in; 41.275 cm x 43.815 cm x 38.1 cm