Range and Height Finder
date: label: date made
content: ca. 1960
name: label: user
content: Vogel, Robert M.
label: maker
content: Topcon Corporation
notes: label: Description
content: The accompanying instruction sheet identifies this instrument as a duo-site range height finder with a long sighting bar, short telescope, distance scale, and clinometer. The inscription undoubtedly refers to Topcon, a firm that began in business in 1932, manufacturing instruments for the Japanese army. This instrument was probably made around 1960. The leather case carries a Smithsonian Institution property sticker #84256, and is stamped: Division of Mechanical and Civil Engineering / U.S. National Museum.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: Japan
setName: label: See more items in
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: 2007.0214.5
label: catalog number
content: 2007.0214.5
label: accession number
content: 2007.0214
objectType: label: Object Name
content: range and height finder
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 3 1/2 in x 4 in x 12 1/4 in; 8.89 cm x 10.16 cm x 31.115 cm
label: Measurements
content: overall in case: 13 1/2 in x 6 3/4 in x 4 in; 34.29 cm x 17.145 cm x 10.16 cm