Horizontal Pedestal Sundial Signed B. Pike & Sons
notes: label: Description
content: This circular horizontal pedestal sundial of bronze or brass has indicated on it the hours from V to XII to I to VII. The hour scale is divided to five minute intervals. It has three holes for screws to attach dial it to a pedestal, but no pedestal. The gnomon is at an angle of about 40 degrees. It is screwed to the dial plate for use, but kept separately for storage. A mark on the base reads: B. PIKE & SONS (/) 518 BROADWAY (/) NEW YORK (/) L 40 [symbol for degrees] 42'. New York City is at a latitude of 40 degrees, 44 minutes.
label: Description
content: The company Benjamin Pike & Sons was at 518 Broadway from 1855 to 1867. An 1856 Pike catalog included advertised a horizontal sundial, but it is not identical to this one.
label: Description
content: Reference:
label: Description
content: Deborah J. Warner, ed., <I>Pike's Illustrated Catalogue of Scientific & Medical Instruments</I>, Dracut: the Antiquarian Scientist and San Francisco: Jeremy Norman & Co., 1984, vol. I, p. 135. This is a facsimile of the 1856 catalog of Benjamin Pike, Jr.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: New York, New York City
topic: label: Subject
content: Mathematics
label: Subject
content: Timekeeping
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content: Medicine and Science: Mathematics
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content: Science & Mathematics
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1980.0588.03
label: accession number
content: 1980.0588
label: catalog number
content: 1980.0588.03
objectType: label: Object Name
content: sundial
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: bronze (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 10.3 cm x 19.2 cm x 19.2 cm; 4 1/16 in x 7 9/16 in x 7 9/16 in