Japanese Surveyor's Instrument
date: label: date made
content: 1876
notes: label: Description
content: This brass surveyor’s instrument combines a magnetic compass, sighting telescope, and clinometer. It was included in the Japanese display at the Centennial Exhibition held in Philadelphia in 1876. It was then placed in the U.S. Bureau of Education Museum. And it was transferred to the Smithsonian in 1910.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: Japan
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.261272
label: catalog number
content: 261272
label: accession number
content: 51116
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Surveyor's Instrument
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: compass: 5 in; 12.7 cm
label: Measurements
content: telescope: 8 3/4 in; 22.225 cm
label: Measurements
content: overall: 10 1/4 in x 8 3/4 in x 1 15/16 in; 26.035 cm x 22.225 cm x 4.92125 cm