Sextant
date: label: date made
content: ca 1907
name: label: maker
content: Hurlimann, A.
notes: label: Description
content: Sextant with a silvered scale graduated every 20 minutes from -5° to +175° and read by vernier with tangent screw and magnifier to 30 seconds of arc. The inscriptions read "Lorieux, A. Hurlimann succr à Paris" and "C. & G.S. 307." The U.S. Coast & Geodetic Survey acquired this instrument in 1907 and transferred it to the Smithsonian in 1929.
label: Description
content: A. Hurlimann was a mathematical instrument maker in Paris who took over Lorieux's shop in the early 1890s. He was succeeded by Ponthus & Therrode a few years later.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: France: Île-de-France, Paris
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content: Medicine and Science: Physical Sciences
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content: Measuring & Mapping
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: PH.309660
label: accession number
content: 106954
label: catalog number
content: 309660
objectType: label: Object Name
content: sextant
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: brass (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: silver (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: glass (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: radius: 5 1/2 in; 13.97 cm