surveyor's tripod
name: label: maker
content: Benjamin Rittenhouse
notes: label: Description
content: This unmarked tripod is associated with the surveyor’s compass PH.310,815.01 that was made Benjamin Rittenhouse and used by Andrew Ellicott. Henry B. Douglas, a great grandson of Ellicott’s, gave it to the Smithsonian in 1934.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
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: PH.310815.02
label: accession number
content: 128427
label: catalog number
content: 310815.02
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Surveyor's Tripod
label: Object Name
content: surveyor's tripod
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 137 cm x 7.6 cm; 53 15/16 in x 3 in
label: Measurements
content: overall: 54 1/4 in x 3 1/2 in x 3 in; 137.795 cm x 8.89 cm x 7.62 cm