Repeating Circle
name: label: maker
content: Gambey, Henri Prudence
notes: label: Description
content: A tag on the box indicates that this instrument was used by the U.S. Topographical Bureau, as the mapping branch of the Army Engineers was once known. The "Gambey a Paris" inscription is that of Henri Prudence Gambey (1787–1847), the foremost maker of precision instruments in France in the first half of the 19th century. The circle is silvered, graduated to 5 minutes, and read by 4 verniers with magnifiers.
label: Description
content: Ref: Deborah J. Warner, "Gambey’s American Customers," <i>Rittenhouse</i> 4 (1990): 65–78.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: France: Île-de-France, Paris
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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
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Mrs. Llewellyn N. Edwards
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: PH.325685
label: catalog number
content: 325685
label: accession number
content: 257193
objectType: label: Object Name
content: repeating circle
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: circle: 9 in; 22.86 cm
label: Measurements
content: telescope: 11 1/2 in; 29.21 cm