Base for Geodetic Transit
name: label: Maker
content: Stackpole & Brother
notes: label: Description
content: This is the base for one of the “broken” transit instruments that Stackpole & Bro. of New York made for the United States expeditions to observe the 1874 transit of Venus across the face of the sun. It was used at Peking in 1874, and at Wellington, N.Z., in 1882.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: New York, New York City
setName: label: See more items in
content: Medicine and Science: Physical Sciences
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: PH.327721
label: accession number
content: 283654
label: catalog number
content: 327721
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Astronomical Transit (base only)
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: brass (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: wood (overall material)