Geodetic Transit
date: label: date made
content: 1873
name: label: Maker
content: Stackpole & Brother
notes: label: Description
content: This transit instrument marked "Stackpole & Bro. New York" is one of eight identical instruments made for the United States expeditions to observe the 1874 transit of Venus across the face of the sun. It has a "broken" telescope that is viewed through one end of the horizontal axis, a graduated vertical circle, a cast-iron base, and a mechanism used to lift and reverse the telescope. The original cost was: $1360.
label: Description
content: This instrument was used to observe the 1874 transit at Campbelltown, Tasmania, and the 1882 transit at Santiago, Chile.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: New York, New York City
setName: label: See more items in
content: Medicine and Science: Physical Sciences
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: PH.327720
label: accession number
content: 283654
label: catalog number
content: 327720
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Astronomical Transit Instrument
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: brass (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: wood (overall material)