Theodolite
name: label: maker
content: Zeiss
notes: label: Description
content: Zeiss brought out its first optical theodolite with graduated glass circles, the Th I, in 1924, and they produced the Th II, a one-second instrument of this sort, during the years 1935-1941. This example may be one of the many instruments that American intelligence officers captured from the German geodetic office at the end of World War II. The U. S. National Imagery and Mapping Agency transferred it to the Smithsonian in 2000.
label: Description
content: The signature reads "Th II CARL ZEISS JENA Nr. 34390." A brass tag on the box reads "SICKLER KARLSRUCH.I.B.gegenuber der HAUPTPOST." The inscription painted on the box--"No. 45 AMS GEOD DIV"--refers to the Geodetic Division of the U. S. Army Map Service.
label: Description
content: Ref: Carl Zeiss, <i>Zeiss Repeating Theodolite II, Instructions for Use</i> (Jena, 1936).
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
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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: Carl Zeiss. Zeiss Repeating Theodolite II, Instructions for Use
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: U.S. Department of Defense, National Imagery and Mapping Agency, Geodesy and Geophysics Department
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2000.0257.06
label: accession number
content: 2000.0257
label: catalog number
content: 2000.0257.06
objectType: label: Object Name
content: theodolite
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 9 1/2 in; 24.13 cm
label: Measurements
content: aperture: 1 3/4 in; 4.445 cm