Geodimeter Model 6
name: label: maker
content: AGA
notes: label: Description
content: The Geodimeter Model 6, introduced in 1964, was a transistorized Electronic Distance Meter with coaxially mounted transmitter and receiving optics. It had a range of 1-2 miles in daylight, and 10 miles in darkness, and a standard accuracy of 5 mm + 1mm/km. Without case or tripod, it weighed a mere 35 pounds. Advertisements showed it being carried by a woman, with text stating "Your assistant can look like this." Equipped with a tungsten lamp and various accessories, it cost about $10,000 and could be powered with a 12-volt car battery. A mercury vapor lamp for the Model 6 cost some $2,500 more, and required a special generator. Michael Baker Jr., Inc., purchased this example in 1966, and donated it to the Smithsonian Institution in 1997.
label: Description
content: Ref: AGA, <i>Geodimeter Model 6A Operating Manual</i>.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: Sweden: Stockholm, Stockholm
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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: AGA. Geodimeter Model 6A Operating Manual
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Michael Baker, Jr., Inc.
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1997.0290.01
label: accession number
content: 1997.0290
label: catalog number
content: 1997.0290.01
objectType: label: Object Name
content: edm
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 21 in x 14 in x 8 1/2 in; 53.34 cm x 35.56 cm x 21.59 cm