Pocket Compass
notes: label: Description
content: The cardinal points of this compass are lettered N, W, S, and O, probably indicating that it was made in Germany. The raised rim is graduated to 15 minutes of time, and numbered counterclockwise, twice, in hours from 1 to 12. One side of the face is graduated to degrees, numbered every 20 degrees from O to N and from O to S. A pendulum clinometer is pivoted at the center. The "Dr F. M. Endlich" inscriptiion is that of Frederic Miller Endlich (1851–1899), a mineralogist at the Smithsonian Institution who served as an assistant on the Hayden geological surveys in the American West in the 1870s.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
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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
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: PH.316738
label: catalog number
content: 316738
label: accession number
content: 228301
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Pocket Compass
label: Object Name
content: pocket compass
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 3 1/4 in x 3 in; 8.255 cm x 7.62 cm
label: Measurements
content: overall: 1/2 in x 2 3/4 in x 3 1/8 in; 1.27 cm x 6.985 cm x 7.9375 cm