Pocket Compass
name: label: maker
content: Keuffel & Esser Co.
notes: label: Description
content: This compass has one folding sight; a slit in the lid serves as the second sight. Since the lid is mirrored, the user can read the needle while sighting a distant object. The floating card is graduated to degrees and numbered every ten degrees to 360. There is also a second (inner) row of numbers in quadrants, reversed for reading in the mirror. The signature reads "KEUFFEL & ESSER CO NEW-YORK" and it probably dates from the period 1890–1910. Keuffel & Esser donated it to the Smithsonian in 1972.
label: Description
content: Ref: Keuffel & Esser, <i>Catalogue</i> (New York, 1906), p.427.
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
publisher: label: Related Publication
content: Keuffel & Esser. Catalogue of Keuffel & Esser Co., 32 Edition
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: PH.333759
label: catalog number
content: 333759
label: accession number
content: 306012
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Pocket Compass
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 4 in; 10.16 cm
label: Measurements
content: overall: 3 7/8 in x 4 1/4 in x 3 15/16 in; 9.8425 cm x 10.795 cm x 10.00125 cm