Pocket Compass
notes: label: Description
content: Magnetic compass with pendulum clinometer, sights, and map distance meter that resembles the geological compass with clinometer sold by F. W. Breithaupt und Sohn of Kassel, Germany. According to the donor, this compass belonged to her father, Peter Moses. He served in the U.S. Army in Germany during World War II, and presumably acquired this instrument at that time.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: Germany
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: 2000.0147.01
label: accession number
content: 2000.0147
label: catalog number
content: 2000.0147.01
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Pocket Compass
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall in case: 1 3/4 in x 3 1/8 in x 3 1/2 in; 4.445 cm x 7.9375 cm x 8.89 cm