Sextant
date: label: date made
content: 1836-1900
name: label: maker
content: Troughton & Simms
notes: label: Description
content: Sextant with a brass frame. The silvered scale is graduated every 10 minutes from -5° to +155° and read by vernier with tangent screw and magnifier to 10 seconds of arc. The inscriptions read "Troughton & Simms, London" and "Silver."
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United Kingdom: England, London
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content: Medicine and Science: Physical Sciences
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content: Measuring & Mapping
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Princeton University Observatory
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: PH.328886
label: catalog number
content: 328886
label: accession number
content: 277637
objectType: label: Object Name
content: sextant
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: brass (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: silver (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: wood (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 8 1/2 in x 11 1/2 in x 4 in; 21.59 cm x 29.21 cm x 10.16 cm
label: Measurements
content: overall: 4 in x 11 1/2 in x 8 1/4 in; 10.16 cm x 29.21 cm x 20.955 cm