Dry Card Compass
date: label: date made
content: ca 1817
name: label: maker
content: Burrough, Robert S.
notes: label: Description
content: Dry-card compass with a turned wood bowl gimbal mounted in a wood box, with a "R. S. BURROUGH." PROVIDENCE." inscription. It dates from around 1817 when Robert S. Burrough was in Providence, Rhode Island, selling and repairing nautical and other mathematical instruments.
label: Description
content: Ref: Burrough advertisement in the <i>New American Practical Navigator</i> (1817).
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Rhode Island, Providence
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content: Medicine and Science: Physical Sciences
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content: Measuring & Mapping
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1992.0202.01
label: catalog number
content: 1992.0202.01
label: accession number
content: 1992.0202
objectType: label: Object Name
content: compass
label: Object Name
content: nautical compass (dry card)
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 8 in; 20.32 cm
label: Measurements
content: overall: 6 5/8 in x 10 3/16 in x 10 3/8 in; 16.8275 cm x 25.87625 cm x 26.3525 cm