Range Finder
date: label: date made
content: 1870s
name: label: maker
content: J. J. Hicks
notes: label: Description
content: Patent model for H. S. S. Watkins, "Improvement in Surveying-Instruments," U.S. Patent #213018 (1879). The inscriptions read "WATKINS Field Range Finder -- J. HICKS MAKER, 8 Hatton Garden, London" and "No. 12."
label: Description
content: Henry Watkins, a captain in the Royal Artillery, obtained a British patent for a range finder in 1876. The instrument was soon adopted for service in Britain, and tested and found satisfactory by the U.S. Army in 1879. J. J. Hicks was a leading meteorological instrument maker in London.
label: Description
content: Ref: F. H. Phipps, "Report on Range Finders," <i>Report of the Chief of Ordnance to the Secretary of War for the Fiscal Year Ended June 30, 1879</i>, Appendix X.
label: Description
content: Anita McConnell, <i>King of the Clinicals. The Life and Times of J. J. Hicks (1837-1916)</i> (York, 1998).
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United Kingdom: England, London, City of London
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content: Medicine and Science: Physical Sciences
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: PH.308964
label: catalog number
content: 308964
label: accession number
content: 89797
label: patent number
content: 213,018
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Range Finder
label: Object Type
content: Patent Model
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 1 1/4 in x 5 3/4 in x 2 5/8 in; 3.175 cm x 14.605 cm x 6.6675 cm