Stadimeter
name: label: maker
content: Keuffel & Esser Co.
notes: label: Description
content: Range finder with a "STADIMETER U.S. NAVY BUREAU OF ORDNANCE MARK III MOD. 1 NO. 409 / 1918 INSPEC. CHD MADE BY KEUFFEL & ESSER CO. NEW YORK" inscriptions. Unlike the other examples in the collection, this one has a telescopic sight. It was made during World War I. The form was developed in the 1890s by the innovative American naval officer, Bradley Allen Fiske (1854-1942).
label: Description
content: Ref: <i>Instructions for the Use and Care of the Fiske Ship-Telegraphs and Stadimeter</i> (Published by Authority of the Bureau of Ordnance, Navy Department, 1896).
label: Description
content: Paolo E. Coletta, <i>Admiral Bradley A. Fiske and the American Navy</i> (Lawrence: University of Kansas Press, 1979), pp. 38-40.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: New York
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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: Coletta, Paolo E.. Admiral Bradley A. Fiske and the American Navy
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: U.S. Department of Defense, National Imagery and Mapping Agency, Geodesy and Geophysics Department
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2000.0257.03
label: accession number
content: 2000.0257
label: catalog number
content: 2000.0257.03
objectType: label: Object Name
content: range finder