Gunner's Quadrant
name: label: maker
content: C. H. Stoelting Company
notes: label: Description
content: Christian Hans Stoelting (1865-1943) was a German immigrant who established the Chicago Laboratory Supply and Scale Co. in 1886. By 1903, that firm had become the C.H. Stoelting Co., specializing in apparatus for psychological testing. In June 1918, that company received a contract to produce quadrants for the U.S. Navy. This example of that instrument came from the U.S. Naval Weapons Plant. An inscription reads "WAYMOUTH-COOKE NAVAL RANGE FINDER."
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Illinois, Chicago
topic: label: related event
content: World War I
setName: label: See more items in
content: Medicine and Science: Physical Sciences
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: U.S. Naval Weapons Plant, Optical Shop
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: PH.319196
label: catalog number
content: 319196
label: accession number
content: 237036
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Gunner's Quadrant
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 9 1/4 in x 14 3/4 in x 2 in; 23.495 cm x 37.465 cm x 5.08 cm