Pedometer
date: label: date made
content: around 1900
notes: label: Description
content: This watch-pattern pedometer was used by Dr. Leonard Stejneger (1851-1943), a Norwegian-born ornithologist and herpetologist who worked for the Smithsonian. It has two scales, the larger reading to 1760 yards and the smaller reading to 50 miles. A mark on the back reads “FWR.” The rim is inscribed “ENG. DPT. U.S.A. 1905 #246.”
label: Description
content: Ref: Queen & Co., <i>Manual of Engineers’ and Surveyor’s Instruments</i> (Philadelphia, 1898), p. 101
label: Description
content: Keuffel & Esser, Catalogue of Drawing Materials, Surveying Instruments, Measuring Tapes (New York, 1921), p. 394.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
setName: label: See more items in
content: Medicine and Science: Physical Sciences
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content: Measuring & Mapping
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: PH.320249
label: catalog number
content: 320249
label: accession number
content: 241910
objectType: label: Object Name
content: pedometer
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 9/16 in x 1 5/8 in x 2 1/8 in; 1.42875 cm x 4.1275 cm x 5.3975 cm
label: Measurements
content: overall: 5/8 in x 1 11/16 in x 3 3/8 in; 1.5875 cm x 4.28625 cm x 8.5725 cm