Sextant
date: label: date made
content: 1856-1866
name: label: user
content: Mason, Theodorus B. M.
label: maker
content: E. & G. W. Blunt
notes: label: Description
content: Sextant with a silvered scale graduated every 10 minutes from -5° to +155° and read by vernier with tangent screw and swinging magnifier to 10 seconds. The inscription reads "E. & G. W. Blunt, New York." Theodorus Bailey Myers Mason (1848-1899), a career naval officer, probably acquired this sextant in 1865 when he graduated from the Naval Academy at Newport, R.I. Mason's sister Cassie (Mrs. Julian) James, a Washington socialite, gave it to the Smithsonian.
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: Measuring & Mapping
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Mrs. Julian James
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: PH.275100
label: catalog number
content: 275100
label: accession number
content: 70138
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Sextant
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: mahogany (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: copper (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: radius: 7 1/2 in; 19.05 cm
label: Measurements
content: overall in box: 5 1/2 in x 16 3/8 in x 10 13/16 in; 13.97 cm x 41.5925 cm x 27.46375 cm