Octant
date: label: date made
content: ca 1855
name: label: Maker
content: Western Union Corporation
label: maker
content: Spencer, Browning & Co.
notes: label: Description
content: This has an ebony frame, a reinforced brass index arm, an ivory scale that is graduated every 20' from -2° to +107° and read by vernier with tangent screw to 30" of arc. The inscription reads "Spencer Browning & Co London. Made for D. McGregor & Co Glasgow & Greenock." Spencer Browning & Co. were in business from 1840 to 1870.
label: Description
content: Western Union transferred this sextant to the Smithsonian in 1972.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United Kingdom: England, London
setName: label: See more items in
content: Work and Industry: Electricity
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: from Western Union Corporation
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: EM.331882
label: catalog number
content: 331882
label: accession number
content: 294351
label: collector/donor number
content: 25-54
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Sextant
label: Object Name
content: Octant
label: Object Name
content: octant
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: ebony (part: material)
label: Physical Description
content: ivory (part: material)
label: Physical Description
content: brass (part: material)
label: Physical Description
content: mahogany (part: material)
label: Measurements
content: box: 12 1/2 in x 11 1/2 in x 5 in; 31.75 cm x 29.21 cm x 12.7 cm
label: Measurements
content: octant: 11 1/2 in x 9 1/2 in x 4 1/2 in; 29.21 cm x 24.13 cm x 11.43 cm