Pocket Compass
name: label: maker
content: Taylor Instrument Co.
notes: label: Description
content: Small pocket compass with a round metal case. The inscriptions on the dial read "GYDAWL" and “SHORT & MASON TAYLOR-ROCESTER, N.Y.” and “PAT. APR. 20-1915.” "N.L. 889" is scratched inside cover. The Taylor Instrument Company identified their different compass models with made up words. David B. Lellinger, the donor, was a botanist who worked at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History.
label: Description
content: Ref: James A. Howe, “Compass,” U.S. Patent 1,136,232 (April 20, 1915), assigned to the Taylor Instrument Co.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: New York, Rochester
setName: label: See more items in
content: Medicine and Science: Physical Sciences
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1986.0243.02
label: catalog number
content: 1986.0243.02
label: accession number
content: 1986.0243
objectType: label: Object Name
content: pocket compass
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 1/2 in x 1 13/16 in; 1.27 cm x 4.60375 cm
label: Measurements
content: overall: 1/2 in x 2 5/8 in x 1 3/4 in; 1.27 cm x 6.6675 cm x 4.445 cm