Sextant
date: label: date made
content: 1900
name: label: maker
content: Keuffel & Esser Co.
notes: label: Description
content: Keuffel & Esser termed this a "high grade" sextant as made for the U.S. Navy. The frame is gun metal. The scale is silvered, graduated every 10 minutes from -5° to 155° and read by vernier with tangent screw and magnifier to 10 seconds of arc. The inscription reads "KEUFFEL & ESSER Co NEW YORK 4652." The serial number indicates that it was made in 1900. New it cost $120.
label: Description
content: Ref: Keuffel & Esser, <i>Catalogue</i> (New York, 1906), p. 414.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: New York
label: place made
content: United States: New Jersey
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content: Medicine and Science: Physical Sciences
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content: Measuring & Mapping
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2003.3107.01
label: catalog number
content: 2003.3107.01
label: nonaccession number
content: 2003.3107
objectType: label: Object Name
content: sextant
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: radius: 7 in; 17.78 cm
label: Measurements
content: overall: 3 7/8 in x 10 3/4 in x 9 1/8 in; 9.8425 cm x 27.305 cm x 23.1775 cm