Surveyor's Compass
name: label: maker
content: W. & S. Jones
notes: label: Description
content: This surveyor's compass, with a face reading clockwise, reflects a British rather than an American design. In Britain it would have been referred to as a “circumferentor.” The "W. & S. JONES 30 Holborn London" inscription refers to an instrument firm that was in business from 1791 to 1859, and at this address from 1800 to 1859.
label: Description
content: Ref: Gloria Clifton, <i>Directory of British Scientific Instrument Makers 1550-1851</i> (London, 1995), p. 155.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United Kingdom: England, London, City of London
setName: label: See more items in
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: Clifton, Gloria and Gerard L. E. Turner. Directory of British Scientific Instrument Makers 1550-1851
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Bill D. Stribling
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: PH.336705
label: accession number
content: 1979.0770
label: catalog number
content: 336705
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Surveyor's Compass
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall length: 11 3/4 in; 29.845 cm
label: Measurements
content: needle: 4 in; 10.16 cm
label: Measurements
content: overall in box: 2 3/4 in x 12 in x 5 3/4 in; 6.985 cm x 30.48 cm x 14.605 cm