Sextant
date: label: date made
content: 1930s
name: label: maker
content: Boyce-Meier Equipment Co.
notes: label: Description
content: Simple die-cast instrument marked "BOYCE-MEIER SEXTANT" and "BRONXVILLE, N.Y." It was produced in the mid-1930s, sold for a mere $3.50, and received an endorsement from the Boy Scouts of America. It is essentially identical to the sextant offered by the Welch Scientific Company in Chicago, even to the bubble level on the sighting tube. George Arthur Boyce (1898-1976) was a teacher of mathematics in Brooklyn and president of the company. He would later become involved with the education of Navajo children.
label: Description
content: A label on the box reads "F. A. O. SCHWARZ [sic] / NEW YORK / 7-28 / STEXTANT [sic] / GXHE"
label: Description
content: Ref: G. A. Boyce, "Directions for Using the Boyce-Meier Sextant," (copyright 1936, 1937).
label: Description
content: "Map Your Way by ‘Shooting’ Stars," <i>Christian Science Monitor</i> (Sept. 23, 1937), p. 6.
label: Description
content: "Wonder of Research: On the Course," <i>Christian Science Monitor</i> (April 21, 1938), p. 8.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: New York, Bronxville
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: 2004.0099.1
label: catalog number
content: 2004.0099.1
label: accession number
content: 2004.0099
objectType: label: Object Name
content: sextant
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 2 in x 7 in x 7 3/4 in; 5.08 cm x 17.78 cm x 19.685 cm
label: Measurements
content: overall in box: 2 1/16 in x 7 3/4 in x 7 1/8 in; 5.23875 cm x 19.685 cm x 18.0975 cm