Surveyor's Compass
notes: label: Description
content: The narrow bar, dovetails holding the vertical sights in place, and face that reads clockwise, suggest that this compass dates from the middle years of the 18th century, when its owner, a Quaker preacher named Benjamin Ferris, settled at Quaker Hill in Dutchess County, N. Y.
label: Description
content: Ref: Conrad S. Ham, "A Family History of a Group of Surveying Instruments 1750 to the Present Year 1954," <i>Annual Report of Proceedings of the Connecticut Society of Civil Engineers</i> 70 (1954): 134-138.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: New York, Dutchess county
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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: Connecticut Society of Civil Engineers. Annual Report of Proceedings of the Connecticut Society of Civil Engineers
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Conrad S. Ham
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1983.0548.01
label: accession number
content: 1983.0548
label: catalog number
content: 1983.0548.01
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Surveyor's Compass
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall length: 13 5/8 in; 34.6075 cm
label: Measurements
content: overall in case: 2 1/2 in x 13 1/2 in x 5 3/4 in; 6.35 cm x 34.29 cm x 14.605 cm
label: Measurements
content: overall base: 3 3/4 in x 5 7/16 in; 9.525 cm x 13.81125 cm