Theodolite
name: label: maker
content: Hagger, Benjamin K.
notes: label: Description
content: This theodolite belonged to Smith College, but is much older than that school. The "Hagger Maker Baltimore" inscription refers to Benjamin K. Hagger, an instrument maker who worked in Baltimore during the period 1816–1824, and who later went into partnership with his eldest son. The horizontal circle and vertical arc are silvered, graduated every 30 minutes, and read by verniers to single minutes.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Maryland, Baltimore
topic: label: Subject
content: Women's History
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content: Medicine and Science: Physical Sciences
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content: Measuring & Mapping
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Smith College
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1980.0098.03
label: accession number
content: 1980.0098
label: catalog number
content: 1980.0098.03
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Theodolite
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 14 in; 35.56 cm
label: Measurements
content: horizontal circle: 8 1/2 in; 21.59 cm
label: Measurements
content: vertical arc: 8 in; 20.32 cm
label: Measurements
content: needle: 4 1/2 in; 11.43 cm
label: Measurements
content: telescope (closed): 12 1/4 in; 31.115 cm
label: Measurements
content: hanging level: 5 1/4 in; 13.335 cm
label: Measurements
content: overall in case: 15 3/4 in x 11 3/8 in x 12 1/8 in; 40.005 cm x 28.8925 cm x 30.7975 cm