Surveyor's Transit
name: label: maker
content: Keuffel & Esser Co.
notes: label: Description
content: This Engineer’s Light Mountain Transit with A-shaped standards was made around 1914 and belonged to the University of Montana. New, it cost $220. The horizontal circle is read by opposite verniers to single minutes. The vertical circle is graduated for stadia use. There are clamps and tangent screws to the horizontal circle and to the telescope axis. The inscriptions read "KEUFFEL & ESSER CO. NEW YORK" and "29353."
label: Description
content: Ref: Keuffel & Esser, <i>Catalogue</i> (New York, 1915), pp. 348-349, 354-355.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: New York
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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: University of Montana, School of Forestry, Montana Forest and Conservation Experiment Station
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1984.0636.08
label: catalog number
content: 1984.0636.08
label: accession number
content: 1984.0636
objectType: label: Object Name
content: transit
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 10 3/4 in; 27.305 cm
label: Measurements
content: horizontal circle: 4 3/4 in; 12.065 cm
label: Measurements
content: vertical circle: 4 in; 10.16 cm
label: Measurements
content: needle: 3 in; 7.62 cm
label: Measurements
content: telescope: 8 1/4 in; 20.955 cm
label: Measurements
content: hanging level: 4 in; 10.16 cm
label: Measurements
content: overall in case: 14 3/4 in x 10 1/2 in x 7 1/4 in; 37.465 cm x 26.67 cm x 18.415 cm