Sextant
date: label: date made
content: 1850-1900
name: label: maker
content: Rupp, Michael
notes: label: Description
content: Karl Axel Eriksson was born in Sweden, and became a U.S. citizen around 1910. He bought this sextant, secondhand, in England in 1918, used it for the rest of his life, and believed that it helped him "advance as a sailor."
label: Description
content: The sextant has a brass frame. The inscription reads "Michael Rupp & Co. New York" and "English." The silvered scale is graduated every 15 minutes from -5° to +135° and read by vernier with tangent screw and swinging magnifier to 15 seconds of arc.
label: Description
content: Michael Rupp (1818-1899) was born in France, came to the U.S. in 1829, and settled in New York in 1844. By 1855 he was selling chronometers and other nautical instruments.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: New York, New York City
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content: Medicine and Science: Physical Sciences
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content: Measuring & Mapping
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Chester Hansen
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1999.0156.01
label: catalog number
content: 1999.0156.01
label: accession number
content: 1999.0156
objectType: label: Object Name
content: sextant
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: radius: 7 1/2 in; 19.05 cm
label: Measurements
content: overall in box: 5 1/16 in x 11 in x 9 3/4 in; 12.85875 cm x 27.94 cm x 24.765 cm