Sextant
date: label: date made
content: ca 1880
name: label: maker
content: Stackpole & Brother
notes: label: Description
content: This sextant has a brass frame, and a silvered scale graduated every 10 minutes from -5° to +180° and read by vernier with tangent screw and swinging magnifier to 10 seconds of arc. The inscriptions read "Stackpole & Brother New York" and "2258."
label: Description
content: Ref: Deborah J. Warner, "American Octants and Sextants: The Early Years," <i>Rittenhouse</i> 3 (1989): 86-112, on 108-109.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: New York, New York City
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content: Medicine and Science: Physical Sciences
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content: Navigation
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content: Measuring & Mapping
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Columbia University
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: PH.335211
label: accession number
content: 317998
label: catalog number
content: 335211
objectType: label: Object Name
content: sextant
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: mahogany (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: brass (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: silver (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: glass (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: box: 5 in x 10 in x 10 in; 12.7 cm x 25.4 cm x 25.4 cm
label: Measurements
content: overall in box: 5 1/8 in x 10 1/16 in x 10 1/8 in; 13.0175 cm x 25.55875 cm x 25.7175 cm