Graphometer
name: label: maker
content: Bosworth, Noah
notes: label: Description
content: This instrument is made of mahogany, and has an inset trough compass. The arc is graduated into degrees. The inscription reads "NOAH BOSWORTH 1823." Noah Bosworth (1778–1837) lived in Halifax, Mass.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Massachusetts, Halifax
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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
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Mr. G. D. Houtman
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: PH.330705
label: catalog number
content: 330705
label: accession number
content: 297049
objectType: label: Object Name
content: graphometer
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 9 in; 22.86 cm
label: Measurements
content: alidade: 13 in; 33.02 cm
label: Measurements
content: overall: 5 1/8 in x 12 3/4 in x 6 3/4 in; 13.0175 cm x 32.385 cm x 17.145 cm