Surveyor's Compass
name: label: maker
content: White, Peregrine
notes: label: Description
content: Peregrine White (1747–1834), a namesake and direct descendant of the first European child born in Cape Cod Harbor in 1620, was a clockmaker in Woodstock, Connecticut. This surveyor's compass probably dates from around 1800. Like the Lamb compass in the collection, the vertical sights fold down when not in use. Like the Harland compass, this one has no direction letters and so can be read either clockwise or counterclockwise. There is a level vial on each arm. The face is inscribed "PEREGRINE WHITE Woodstock."
label: Description
content: Ref: Silvio A. Bedini, <i>Early American Scientific Instruments and Their Makers</i> (Washington, D.C., 1964), pp. 47–48.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Connecticut, Woodstock
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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: Bedini, Silvio A.. Early American Scientific Instruments and Their Makers
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Dr. and Mrs. Arthur M. Greenwood
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: PH.388993a
label: catalog number
content: 388993a
label: accession number
content: 182022
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Surveyor's Compass
label: Object Name
content: surveyor's compass
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall length: 12 3/8 in; 31.4325 cm
label: Measurements
content: needle: 4 1/2 in; 11.43 cm
label: Measurements
content: overall: 6 7/8 in x 12 3/8 in x 5 7/8 in; 17.4625 cm x 31.4325 cm x 14.9225 cm