Sextant
date: label: date made
content: mid 19th century
name: label: maker
content: John Bruce & Son
notes: label: Description
content: This sextant belonged to Haverford College, and probably dates from the second half of the 19th century. The frame is brass. The silvered scale is graduated every 15 minutes from -5° to +130° and read by vernier with tangent screw and swinging magnifier to single minutes of arc. The arc is engraved "JOHN BRUCE & SON, Liverpool."
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United Kingdom: England, Liverpool
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content: Medicine and Science: Physical Sciences
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content: Measuring & Mapping
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Haverford College
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1981.0745.07
label: catalog number
content: 1981.0745.07
label: accession number
content: 1981.0745
objectType: label: Object Name
content: sextant
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: mahogany (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: silver (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: brass (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: glass (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: radius: 7 1/4 in; 18.415 cm
label: Measurements
content: overall: 4 7/8 in x 10 3/4 in x 9 3/4 in; 12.3825 cm x 27.305 cm x 24.765 cm