Heliotrope (Steinheil)
name: label: maker
content: Fauth & Co.
notes: label: Description
content: The Fauth company advertised an instrument of this sort in 1883, describing it as "Pocket Heliotrope, Steinheils, a beautiful instrument that requires no adjustment." Karl August Steinheil was a German physicist who introduced the form in 1844.
label: Description
content: This example is marked “FAUTH & CO. WASHN D.C. 2493" and "238" and "C.&G.S." and "NO. 418.” It belonged to the U. S. Coast and Geodetic Survey. New, with case, it cost $20. It was made after 1887 when G. N. Saegmuller began putting serial numbers on Fauth instruments, and before Saegmuller's move to Rochester in 1905.
label: Description
content: Ref: Fauth & Co., <i>Catalogue of Astronomical and Surveying Instruments</i> (Washington, D.C., 1883), p. 53.
label: Description
content: K.A. Steinheil, "Das Heliotrop," in H. C. Schumacher, ed., <i>Jahrbuch für 1844</i>, pp. 12 17.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: District of Columbia, Washington
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content: Medicine and Science: Physical Sciences
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content: Surveying and Geodesy
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content: Measuring & Mapping
publisher: label: Related Publication
content: Fauth & Co.. Catalogue of Astronomical and Surveying Instruments, 1883
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: PH.309655
label: accession number
content: 106954
label: catalog number
content: 309655
objectType: label: Object Name
content: heliotrope (steinheil)
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall in case: 1 3/4 in x 8 in x 2 5/8 in; 4.445 cm x 20.32 cm x 6.6675 cm