Graphometer
name: label: owner
content: Mount St. Mary's College
notes: label: Description
content: This graphometer belonged to Mount St. Mary's College in Emmitsburg, Md., and was probably made in France in the nineteenth century. It has telescopic rather than open sights. Its semicircle is graduated to degrees, numbered clockwise and counterclockwise, and read by a diagonal scale on one end of the alidade to 10 minutes.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
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content: Medicine and Science: Physical Sciences
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content: Measuring & Mapping
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Mount St. Mary's College
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: PH.326107
label: catalog number
content: 326107
label: accession number
content: 257245
objectType: label: Object Name
content: graphometer
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 9 7/8 in; 25.0825 cm
label: Measurements
content: needle: 2 5/8 in; 6.6675 cm
label: Measurements
content: overall: 6 1/8 in x 10 1/8 in x 5 1/2 in; 15.5575 cm x 25.7175 cm x 13.97 cm