Sextant
date: label: date made
content: 1855-1880
name: label: maker
content: Cairns, Alexander
notes: label: Description
content: This sextant belonged to Bowdoin College in Brunswick, Maine. The frame is brass. The silvered scale is graduated every 10 minutes from -5° to +160° and read by vernier with tangent screw and swinging magnifier to 10 seconds of arc. The serial number is 1170. The "A. Cairns, 12 Waterloo Rd Liverpool" inscription probably refers to Alexander Cairns, an instrument dealer working in Liverpool, England during the third quarter of the 19th century.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United Kingdom: England, Liverpool, Liverpool
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content: Medicine and Science: Physical Sciences
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content: Measuring & Mapping
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Bowdoin College
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: PH.329725
label: accession number
content: 278336
label: catalog number
content: 329725
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: Physical Description
content: glass (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: radius: 6 in; 15.24 cm
label: Measurements
content: overall in box: 4 3/4 in x 9 1/2 in x 11 1/2 in; 12.065 cm x 24.13 cm x 29.21 cm