Surveyor's Transit
name: label: maker
content: Stackpole and Brother
notes: label: Description
content: This surveyor's transit with a "Stackpole & Brother New York 1748" inscription was probably made in the 1870s. The horizontal circle is silvered, graduated to 20 minutes of arc, and read by opposite verniers to single minutes. There is a hanging level, and a clamp and tangent screw on the horizontal axis.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: New York, New York City
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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.330482
label: maker number
content: 1748
label: catalog number
content: 330482
label: accession number
content: 296855
objectType: label: Object Name
content: surveyor's transit
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 12 in; 30.48 cm
label: Measurements
content: horizontal circle: 6 in; 15.24 cm
label: Measurements
content: needle: 4 1/2 in; 11.43 cm
label: Measurements
content: telescope: 10 1/4 in; 26.035 cm
label: Measurements
content: hanging level: 6 in; 15.24 cm
label: Measurements
content: overall in case: 14 1/4 in x 13 1/2 in x 9 5/8 in; 36.195 cm x 34.29 cm x 24.4475 cm