Waywiser
name: label: maker
content: Heath & Wing
notes: label: Description
content: This waywiser has a wooden frame and a dial of silvered brass with the usual scales, one for poles and furlongs and the other for miles. A small inset dial divided into 100 sections keeps a talley in terms of links of a chain. The "Heath & Wing LONDON" signature refers to Thomas Heath and Tycho Wing who worked together during the period 1751–1773.
label: Description
content: Ref: Gloria Clifton, <i>Directory of British Scientific Instrument Makers 1550–1851</i> (London, 1995), p. 131.
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: Surveying and Geodesy
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content: Measuring & Mapping
publisher: label: Related Publication
content: Clifton, Gloria and Gerard L. E. Turner. Directory of British Scientific Instrument Makers 1550-1851
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: PH.318294
label: catalog number
content: 318294
label: accession number
content: 233468
objectType: label: Object Name
content: waywiser