Transit Instrument
name: label: maker
content: Young, William J.
notes: label: Description
content: This transit Instrument (aka meridian circle) was made by William J. Young of Philadelphia, and installed in the new observatory at Haverford College, in the mid-1850s. Haverford astronomers termed it a "Meridian circle, of the German form," noting that it was "an instrument by means of which many of the most important observations of the astronomer are obtained."
label: Description
content: Ref: Description of the Observatory at Haverford College (1857).
place: label: place made
content: United States: Pennsylvania, Philadelphia
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: 1981.0745.14
label: catalog number
content: 1981.0745.014
label: accession number
content: 1981.0745
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Transit Part
label: Object Name
content: Transit Instrument