Pocket Compass
name: label: maker
content: Hunter, Hugh W.
notes: label: Description
content: This pocket compass belonged to Spencer Fullerton Baird, the naturalist who served as the second Secretary of the Smithsonian. The inscription on the back reads “PATENTED MAY 6. 1862 / H. W. HUNTER / NEW YORK.” Hugh W. Hunter was in business by the mid-1850s, advertising as an optician, manufacturer, and importer of optical and mathematical instruments.
label: Description
content: Ref: H. W. Hunter, “Improvement in Magnetic Compasses,” U.S. Patent 35,156 (May 6, 1862).
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: New York, New York
setName: label: See more items in
content: Medicine and Science: Physical Sciences
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: PH.284269
label: catalog number
content: 284269
label: accession number
content: 55865
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Pocket Compass
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 9/16 in x 1 5/8 in x 2 3/8 in; 1.42875 cm x 4.1275 cm x 6.0325 cm