Theodolite
notes: label: Description
content: Theodolite with “Huet Paris” and “VG Paris” inscriptions that was probably used during world War I, and that was transferred to the Smithsonian in 1923 from the Meteorological Section of the U.S. Signal Corps. Clermont Huet began making optical goods in 1892. The firm split in 1912, and in Nov. 1913, the word “Huet” was registered as a trade-mark for opera glasses and other optical instruments. The courts later decided that first names should be used to avoid confusion. Jules Huet et Cie. would later advertise that it was a Nouvelle Maison founded in 1913; it was still going in the 1930s.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
setName: label: See more items in
content: Medicine and Science: Physical Sciences
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: War Department, Signal Corps, Meteorological Section
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: PH.308185.2
label: catalog number
content: 308185.2
label: accession number
content: 70852
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Theodolite
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 12 5/8 in x 5 1/2 in x 13 5/8 in; 32.0675 cm x 13.97 cm x 34.6075 cm