Stadia Hand Transit
name: label: maker
content: Keuffel & Esser Co.
notes: label: Description
content: This stadia hand transit (aka sighting compass) belonged to G. Arthur Cooper (1902-2000), a paleobiologist who spent many years as a curator in the National Museum of Natural History. The inscription on the compass dial reads "Keuffel & ESSER Co NEW-YORK" and that on the telescope reads "PAT APP'D FOR".
label: Description
content: Ref: Philip Ferber, “Surveying Instrument,” U.S. Patent 975,682 (Nov. 15, 1910), assigned to Keuffel & Esser.
label: Description
content: Keuffel & Esser, <i>Catalogue of Drawing Materials, Surveying Instruments, Measuring Tapes</i> (New York, 1921), p. 354.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: New York
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: 2015.0322.01
label: catalog number
content: 2015.0322.01
label: accession number
content: 2015.0322
objectType: label: Object Name
content: transit, hand
label: Object Name
content: stadia hand transit
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: brass (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: leather (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: transit: 3 1/4 in x 1 7/8 in x 10 7/16 in; 8.255 cm x 4.7625 cm x 26.51125 cm
label: Measurements
content: lens: 40 mm x 11 mm; 1 9/16 in x 7/16 in
label: Measurements
content: case: 11 in x 4 1/8 in x 2 1/4 in; 27.94 cm x 10.4775 cm x 5.715 cm
label: Measurements
content: adjusting pin: 39 mm x .06216 mm; 1 17/32 in x in
label: Measurements
content: overall in case: 11 in x 3 13/16 in x 2 3/8 in; 27.94 cm x 9.68375 cm x 6.0325 cm