Waywiser
name: label: maker
content: Beers, James Morris
notes: label: Description
content: The dial of this instrument is divided into 100 sections, and has 2 pointers. The box in front of the dial can hold supplies. The vertical pole serves as a staff for a surveyor's compass. The inscription reads "JAMES M. BEERS Maker New Haven, Conn" and "No 55."
label: Description
content: James Morris Beers (1841-1918) described himself as "an expert machinist and an inventor of talent," noting that he made "carriage and wood working machinery, steam and hydraulic pumps, electrical apparatus, surveying, drafting and philosophical instruments, machinery for the use of manufacturing druggists and chemists, and experimental and special machinery of all kinds." He was probably related to Smith Beers, also of Connecticut, who obtained two odometer patents, one in 1839 and another in 1856.
label: Description
content: Ref:<i>The Industrial Advantages of the City of New Haven, Conn.</i> (New Haven, Conn., 1889), p. 139.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Connecticut, New Haven
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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
publisher: label: Related Publication
content: Industrial Advantages of the City of New Haven, Conn.
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: PH.319204
label: catalog number
content: 319204
label: accession number
content: 234775
objectType: label: Object Name
content: waywiser
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 32 in x 20 in x 57 in; 81.28 cm x 50.8 cm x 144.78 cm
label: Measurements
content: wheel: 32 in; 81.28 cm