Surveyor's Vernier Compass
name: label: maker
content: W. & L. E. Gurley
notes: label: Description
content: The rim of this Gurley vernier compass is graduated to 30 minutes. The variation arc on the south arm extends 20 degrees either way, and is read by folded vernier to 2 minutes. Two level vials are on the north arm, and an outkeeper is on the south arm. The side of one vertical sight is graduated to half degrees, for determining angles of elevation or depression. The machine-engraved signature indicates that it was made after 1876. This compass came to the Smithsonian from the University of Missouri at Columbia.
label: Description
content: Ref: W. & L. E. Gurley, <i>A Manual of the Principal Instruments Used in American Engineering and Surveying</i> (Troy, N.Y., 1904), pp. 108-120.
label: Description
content: W. Skerritt, "W. & L. E. Gurley's Engraving Machine," <i>Rittenhouse</i> 11 (1997): 97-100.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: New York, Troy
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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: W. & L. E. Gurley. Manual of the Prinicipal Instruments Used in American Engineering and Surveying; 37th Edition
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: University of Missouri-Columbia, Department of Civil Engineering
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: PH.333661
label: catalog number
content: 333661
label: accession number
content: 300659
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Surveyor's Compass
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall length: 15 1/2 in; 39.37 cm
label: Measurements
content: needle: 6 in; 15.24 cm
label: Measurements
content: overall in case: 4 5/8 in x 16 1/2 in x 8 7/16 in; 11.7475 cm x 41.91 cm x 21.43125 cm