Builder's Transit
date: label: date made
content: 1950s
name: label: maker
content: C.L. Berger and Sons
notes: label: Description
content: Convertible Transit Level with a "C. L. BERGER AND SONS, INC. BOSTON, MASS. 62282 MADE IN U.S.A." inscription. Berger introduced this form in the early 1950s, describing it as a "modern, practical and sturdy instrument, precision engineered for the requirements of the contractor and builder." This example belonged to Charles H. Rutter, a contractor and builder in southern Prince George's County, Md. Its horizontal circle and vertical arc are divided to single degrees, and read by verniers to 5 minutes.
label: Description
content: Ref: C. L. Berger & Sons, Inc., <i>Solar Ephemeris and Polar Tables</i> (Boston, 1954), p. 62.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Massachusetts, Boston
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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
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2003.0017.03
label: accession number
content: 2003.0017
label: catalog number
content: 2003.0017.03
objectType: label: Object Name
content: builder's transit
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: case: 40 cm x 17 cm x 29 cm; 15 3/4 in x 6 11/16 in x 11 7/16 in
label: Measurements
content: overall in case: 15 in x 11 in x 6 3/8 in; 38.1 cm x 27.94 cm x 16.1925 cm