Clinometer
notes: label: Description
content: Patent model for Eli Thayer, "Improvement in Plane Angulometers," U.S. Patent 36,312 (Aug. 26, 1862). Eli Thayer (1819-1899) graduated from Brown University; organized the Oread Institute, a school for young women in Worcester, Mass.; established the Emigrant Aid Society; and served briefly as a member of the House of Representatives.
label: Description
content: Ref: "Eli Thayer," New York Tribune (April 16, 1899), p. 6.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
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.314752
label: catalog number
content: 314752
label: accession number
content: 210834
label: patent number
content: 36312
objectType: label: Object Name
content: clinometer
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 7 in x 6 in x 4 1/2 in; 17.78 cm x 15.24 cm x 11.43 cm
label: Measurements
content: overall: 6 7/8 in x 6 in x 4 1/2 in; 17.4625 cm x 15.24 cm x 11.43 cm