Range Finder
date: label: date made
content: 1914
name: label: maker
content: T. Cooke & Sons Ltd.
notes: label: Description
content: The inscriptions on this World War I rangefinder read “N° 628 / MARK II” and “T. COOKE & SONS LTD LONDON & YORK WAYMOUTH COOKE NAVAL RANGE FINDER PAT N° 1599 / 1914.”
label: Description
content: Thomas Cooke (1807-1868) established an instrument-making firm in York, England, in 1837. This, in time, became T. Cooke & Sons, Ltd. Vickers acquired the firm in 1915. Following a merger in 1922, it became part of Cooke, Troughton & Simms.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United Kingdom: England, York
topic: label: related event
content: World War I
setName: label: See more items in
content: Medicine and Science: Physical Sciences
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: U.S. Naval Weapons Plant, Optical Shop
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: PH.319198
label: catalog number
content: 319198
label: accession number
content: 237036
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Range Finder
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 3 3/8 in x 7 3/8 in x 7 1/2 in; 8.5725 cm x 18.7325 cm x 19.05 cm