Atitude-Azimuth Instrument
date: label: date made
content: 1890s
name: label: maker
content: Fauth & Co.
notes: label: Description
content: This alt-azimuth instrument has several aluminum parts. The horizontal circle is 12 inches diameter; the vertical circle is 10 inches diameter. The "Fauth & Co., Washington, D.C. / 1943" inscription on a brass tag refers to a firm that began in business in 1874. Although Camill Fauth retired in 1887 and returned to Germany, George N. Saegmuller kept the firm going for several years. And he began the practice of putting serial numbers on instruments.
label: Description
content: Ref: Geo. N. Saegmuller, <i>Description and Price-List of First-Class Engineering & Astronomical Instruments</i> (Washington, D.C., 1892).
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: District of Columbia
setName: label: See more items in
content: Medicine and Science: Physical Sciences
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: U.S. Naval Observatory
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: PH.328506
label: catalog number
content: 328506
label: accession number
content: 282476
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Altitude-Azimuth Instrument
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 24 in x 14 in x 21 in; 60.96 cm x 35.56 cm x 53.34 cm
label: Measurements
content: telescope: 26 3/4 in x 12 in x 11 in; 67.945 cm x 30.48 cm x 27.94 cm
label: Measurements
content: tripod: 28 in x 21 in x 15 in; 71.12 cm x 53.34 cm x 38.1 cm
label: Measurements
content: component: 14 in x 11 in x 3 3/4 in; 35.56 cm x 27.94 cm x 9.525 cm
label: Measurements
content: overall: cr7163: 60 in x 92 in x 29 in; 152.4 cm x 233.68 cm x 73.66 cm