Dry Card Compass
date: label: date made
content: after 1853
name: label: maker
content: Shaw, Robert Ludlow
notes: label: Description
content: The compass has a brass bowl gimbal mounted in a wooden box. The inscription in the center of the paper card reads "R. L. SHAW * 222 WATER ST NEW-YORK*. Robert Ludlow Shaw (1813-1876) was an instrument maker in New York.
label: Description
content: The box is marked "J. BELL’S PATENT JANY 25, 1853." This refers to John Bell of New York City who designed a method of joining the corners of wooden boxes.
label: Description
content: Ref: John Bell, "Method of Joining Corners of Boxes, &c." U.S. Patent #9,552 (1853).
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: New York, New York
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content: Medicine and Science: Physical Sciences
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content: Measuring & Mapping
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Rutgers University
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: PH.327635
label: catalog number
content: 327635
label: accession number
content: 268279
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Nautical Compass (Dry Card)
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: compass: 7 1/4 in; 18.415 cm
label: Measurements
content: box: 10 in x 10 in; 25.4 cm x 25.4 cm
label: Measurements
content: overall: 6 3/4 in x 10 in x 10 in; 17.145 cm x 25.4 cm x 25.4 cm