Box Chronometer
date: label: Date made
content: c1870
name: label: maker
content: Julius Albers
notes: label: Description
content: This is a 56 hour chronometer with a spring detent escapement, and indications for hours, minutes, seconds, and up and down. It dates from around 1890. Weston College donated it to the Smithsonian in 1967.
label: Description
content: Ref: Marvin E. Whitney, <i>The Ship's Chronometer</i> (Cincinnati, 1985), p. 263.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: Germany
setName: label: See more items in
content: Work and Industry: Mechanisms
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: From the Rev. Henry M. Brock, S.J. Physics Collection, Weston College, Weston, Mass.
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: ME.328481
label: catalog number
content: 328481
label: accession number
content: 271661
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Box Chronometer
label: Other Terms
content: Chronometer, Marine; Box Chronometer; Mechanical, Spring-Driven
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: wood case - from catalog card: 7 in x 6 3/4 in x 6 3/4 in; 17.78 cm x 17.145 cm x 17.145 cm
label: Measurements
content: dial - from catalog card: 99 mm; x 3 29/32 in
label: Measurements
content: overall: 7 in x 7 1/4 in x 6 7/8 in; 17.78 cm x 18.415 cm x 17.4625 cm