Heliotrope
name: label: maker
content: Fauth & Co.
notes: label: Description
content: The "FAUTH & CO.” and “C.&G.S.” and “NO. 417" inscriptions indicated that this heliotrope was made after 1878 when the U.S. Coast Survey became U. S. Coast and Geodetic Survey, and before Saegmuller's move to Rochester in 1905. New, with case, it cost $20.
label: Description
content: Fauth termed this a "Pocket Heliotrope, Steinheils, a beautiful instrument that requires no adjustment." The reference is to the German physicist, Karl August Steinheil, who introduced the form in 1844.
label: Description
content: Ref: Fauth & Co., <i>Catalogue of Astronomical and Surveying Instruments</i> (Washington, D.C., 1883), p. 53.
label: Description
content: K.A. Steinheil, "Das Heliotrop," in H. C. Schumacher, ed., <i>Jahrbuch für 1844</i>, pp. 12 17.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: District of Columbia, Washington
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.315242
label: catalog number
content: 315242
label: accession number
content: 218472
objectType: label: Object Name
content: heliotrope
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 1 1/8 in x 1 3/4 in; 2.8575 cm x 4.445 cm
label: Measurements
content: overall: 1 1/2 in x 5 1/4 in x 1 1/2 in; 3.81 cm x 13.335 cm x 3.81 cm