Surveyor's Transit
date: label: date made
content: 1908
name: label: maker
content: Keuffel & Esser Co.
notes: label: Description
content: This is an Engineer's Mountain and Mining Transit, Model 5076. New, it cost $220. The Solar Attachment, Model 5090, based on the design patented by G. N. Saegmuller in 1881, cost an additional $50. The inscription on the compass dial reads “KEUFFEL & ESSER CO. / NEW YORK.” The 18373 serial number corresponds with a date of about 1908. By 1913, Keuffel & Esser had changed the design of this transit in several small ways.
label: Description
content: Ref: Keuffel & Esser, <i>Catalogue of Drawing Materials, Surveying Instruments</i> (New York, 1906), pp. 30-31 and 372.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: New York, New York City
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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: Keuffel & Esser. Catalogue of Drawing Materials, Surveying Instruments
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: LaVerne Watkins
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1989.0403.05
label: accession number
content: 1989.0403
label: catalog number
content: 1989.0403.05
objectType: label: Object Name
content: surveyor's transit
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 14 in; 35.56 cm
label: Measurements
content: horizontal circle: 5 1/2 in; 13.97 cm
label: Measurements
content: needle: 3 1/2 in; 8.89 cm
label: Measurements
content: vertical circle: 4 1/2 in; 11.43 cm
label: Measurements
content: telescope: 9 in; 22.86 cm
label: Measurements
content: hanging level: 4 1/2 in; 11.43 cm
label: Measurements
content: overall: 14 1/2 in x 10 1/2 in x 8 1/8 in; 36.83 cm x 26.67 cm x 20.6375 cm