Alidade
name: label: maker
content: Lutz, Edouard
notes: label: Description
content: This brass alidade has folding sights that are centered on its beveled edge. The U. S. Bureau of Education transferred it to the Smithsonian in 1910. The "E. LUTZ PARIS" inscriptiion refers to Edouard Lutz, an instrument maker who worked in the second half of the 19th century.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: France: Île-de-France, Paris
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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
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: U.S. Bureau of Education
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: PH.313396
label: catalog number
content: 313396
label: accession number
content: 51116
objectType: label: Object Name
content: alidade
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: brass (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 8 in x 17 13/16 in; 20.32 cm x 45.212 cm
label: Measurements
content: overall arms folded down: 1 1/4 in x 17 13/16 in x 2 3/8 in; 3.175 cm x 45.24375 cm x 6.0325 cm