Odometer
name: label: Maker
content: A.S. Aloe
notes: label: Description
content: Pendulum odometer in a cylindrical brass frame with an “A. S. ALOE MAKER ST. LOUIS” inscription on the back. Albert Sidney Aloe (1842–1893) was a Jewish immigrant from Scotland who settled in St. Louis, Missouri, in the early 1860s. He began selling spectacles and other optical goods, but was soon offering surveying instruments and medical and laboratory supplies as well. The firm traded as A. S. Aloe in the years 1867–1876.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Missouri, St. Louis
setName: label: See more items in
content: Medicine and Science: Physical Sciences
label: See more items in
content: Measuring & Mapping
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1994.0147.01
label: catalog number
content: 1994.0147.01
label: accession number
content: 1994.0147
objectType: label: Object Name
content: odometer
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: brass (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 6.4 cm x 11.4 cm; 2 1/2 in x 4 1/2 in
label: Measurements
content: overall: 2 1/2 in x 4 9/16 in x 4 3/8 in; 6.35 cm x 11.58875 cm x 11.1125 cm