Pocket Compass
date: label: date made
content: 1940s
notes: label: Description
content: This small pocket compass in a circular brass case belonged to Emilio Segrè (1905-1989), a Jewish-Italian physicist who moved to the United States in the early years of World War II, and worked on the Manhattan Project. The face is graduated every 5 degrees and numbered every 20 degrees. The “S.&W.N.Y.” inscription refers to Schwab & Wuischpard, a firm that began in business in New York in the 1920s, specialized in watch cases, and made compasses during World War II.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: New York, New York City
setName: label: See more items in
content: Medicine and Science: Modern Physics
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Rosa M. Segrè
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1993.0490.05
label: catalog number
content: 1993.0490.05
label: accession number
content: 1993.0490
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Pocket Compass