Sextant
date: label: date made
content: 1944
name: label: maker
content: Bendix Aviation Corporation. Eclipse-Pioneer Division
notes: label: Description
content: This sextant was made during World War II. The limb is graduated to single degrees. A drum micrometer, the teeth of which mesh with teeth cut into the edge of the limb, reads to 1 minute and, with vernier, to 6 seconds of arc. The inscription reads "BENDIX AVIATION CORPORATION ECLIPSE-PIONEER DIVISION TETERBORO, NEW JERSEY, U.S.A. TYPE NO. 3052-1-A." A plaque in the box reads "U.S. NAVY BUREAU OF SHIPS E.T.S. SEXTANT MARK 2 MOD. 0 N 24359 1944."
label: Description
content: E.T.S. stands for Endless Tangent Screw. Heath & Co. applied for a British patent on the form in 1909 (issued the following year).
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: New Jersey, Teterboro
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content: Medicine and Science: Physical Sciences
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content: Measuring & Mapping
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2003.0353.01
label: catalog number
content: 2003.0353.01
label: accession number
content: 2003.0353
objectType: label: Object Name
content: sextant
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 10.5 cm x 24 cm x 25 cm; 4 1/8 in x 9 7/16 in x 9 13/16 in
label: Measurements
content: overall: 5 3/4 in x 11 3/4 in x 11 1/4 in; 14.605 cm x 29.845 cm x 28.575 cm