Taffrail Log
name: label: maker
content: John Bliss & Co.
notes: label: Description
content: John Bliss & Co. boasted in 1895 that they had sold over 10,000 instruments of this sort, and that they had proven "a most unqualified success as to DURABILITY and ACCURACY." This example was probably made after 1902, after the expiration of the last of Bliss’s patents. It came to the Smithsonian in 1964. The three dials of the register read tenths of a mile, ten miles, and 100 miles. The rotator is missing. The instrument bears the inscription "JOHN BLISS & CO. (/) TAFFRAIL (/) LOG (/) NEW YORK (/) U.S.A."
label: Description
content: Ref: John Bliss & Co., <i>Abridgement of the Nautical Almanac for 1896</i> (New York, 1895).
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
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content: Work and Industry: Maritime
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Howard I. Chapelle
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: TR.323413
label: catalog number
content: 323413
label: accession number
content: 254111
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Log, Taffrail
label: Object Name
content: taffrail log dial
label: Other Terms
content: Log, Taffrail; Maritime