Theodolite
name: label: maker
content: Fauth & Co.
notes: label: Description
content: This theodolite was made between 1878 when the U. S. Coast Survey became the U. S. Coast and Geodetic Survey, and 1887 when Saegmuller began putting serial numbers on Fauth instruments. It was described variously as a Reconnaissance and Mining Transit or a Complete Transit Theodolite. Its horizontal and vertical circles, each of 4 inches diameter, are divided on silver, and read by opposite verniers to single minutes. New, it sold for $200. The marks read "Fauth & Co. Washn D.C." and "U.S.C.&G.S. No. 122."
label: Description
content: Ref: Fauth & Co., <i>Catalogue of Astronomical and Surveying Instruments</i> (Washington, D.C., about 1877), p. 33.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: District of Columbia, Washington
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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
publisher: label: Related Publication
content: Fauth & Co.. Catalogue of Astronomical and Surveying Instruments, 1877
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: PH.309668
label: accession number
content: 106954
label: catalog number
content: 309668
objectType: label: Object Name
content: theodolite
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 9 1/2 in; 24.13 cm
label: Measurements
content: horizontal circle: 4 1/4 in; 10.795 cm
label: Measurements
content: vertical circle: 3 1/2 in; 8.89 cm
label: Measurements
content: telescope: 7 1/4 in; 18.415 cm
label: Measurements
content: overall: 9 5/8 in x 5 1/4 in x 7 1/16 in; 24.4475 cm x 13.335 cm x 17.93875 cm