pocket alt-azimuth
name: label: maker
content: Keuffel & Esser Co.
notes: label: Description
content: The Pocket Altazimuth combines a sighting telescope with a magnetic compass for determining bearings, and a pendulum (or wheel) clinometer for determining vertical inclinations. Small, compact, and accurate, it was said to be especially useful for travelers and military surveys.
label: Description
content: L. Casella introduced the form in 1864, noting that is was "improved and modified by the kind assistance of Francis Galton, F.R.S." The reference is to Francis Galton, (1822-1911), a Fellow of the Royal Society of London, whose work ranged over a number of fields.
label: Description
content: The U. S. Geological Survey transferred this example to the Smithsonian in 1907. The inscription reads "KEUFFEL & ESSER N. Y."
label: Description
content: Ref: L. P. Casella, <i>An Illustrated and Descriptive Catalogue of Surveying, Philosophical, Mathematical, Optical, Photographic, and Standard Meteorological Instruments</i> (London, [about 1871]), p. 71.
label: Description
content: Karl Pearson, <Life, Letters and Labours of Francis Galton</i> (Cambridge, 1914-1930), vol. 2, p. 50.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
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content: Medicine and Science: Physical Sciences
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: PH.247918
label: catalog number
content: 247918
label: accession number
content: 47736
objectType: label: Object Name
content: pocket alt-azimuth
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: box: 1 1/2 in x 7 1/4 in x 3 3/4 in; 3.81 cm x 18.415 cm x 9.525 cm