Sextant
date: label: date made
content: 1800-1840
name: label: maker
content: Spencer Browning & Rust
notes: label: Description
content: This sextant has a brass frame. The silvered scale is graduated every 10 minutes from -5° to +145° and read by vernier with tangent screw and swinging magnifier to 10 seconds of arc. The "Spencer Browning & Rust LONDON" inscription on the arc refers to a firm that was in business from 1784 to 1840.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United Kingdom: England, London
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content: Medicine and Science: Physical Sciences
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content: Measuring & Mapping
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: William G. Dutton
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1981.0943.01
label: catalog number
content: 1981.0943.01
label: accession number
content: 1981.0943
objectType: label: Object Name
content: sextant
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: mahogany (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: brass (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: silver (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: radius: 7 1/2 in; 19.05 cm
label: Measurements
content: overall in box: 5 1/2 in x 11 3/8 in x 11 3/4 in; 13.97 cm x 28.8925 cm x 29.845 cm