Surveying Compass with Folding Sights
name: label: maker
content: Keuffel & Esser Co.
notes: label: Description
content: This is one of the earliest instruments made in the factory that Keuffel & Esser built in Hoboken, N.J., in 1880. The face is marked "KEUFFEL & ESSER / NEW YORK / 183." The circumference of the face is graduated to 1 degree, and there are two bubble vials, one at north and one at east. The variation plate is on the outside of compass box. This originally had a ball joint and socket for mounting on a jacob staff. New, it cost $20.
label: Description
content: Ref: Keuffel & Esser, <i>Catalogue</i> (New York & Chicago, 1892), p. 236.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: New York
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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
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: PH.333757
label: catalog number
content: 333757
label: accession number
content: 306012
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Pocket Compass
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 5 3/4 in; 14.605 cm
label: Measurements
content: overall: 1 3/8 in x 6 1/4 in x 5 5/8 in; 3.4925 cm x 15.875 cm x 14.2875 cm