Odometer
date: label: date made
content: late nineteenth century
notes: label: Description
content: The “USC&GS No. 1” inscription indicates that this carriage wheel odometer was made after 1878 when the U.S. Coast Survey became the U.S. Coast & Geodetic Survey. The Survey <i>Report</i> for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1891 noted that “The odometer forms on sale up to this date do not meet with commendation from the Office of the Geological Survey, and the experience of the chairman of your committee indorses the idea that there is great room for improvement in odometer forms, leaving an open field for invention with practical ideas of the adaptation of such an instrument. In its present form it must be treated very carefully as to rates of travel.”
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
setName: label: See more items in
content: Medicine and Science: Physical Sciences
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content: Measuring & Mapping
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: PH.316083
label: catalog number
content: 316083
label: accession number
content: 224006
objectType: label: Object Name
content: odometer
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 3 in x 4 1/4 in; 7.62 cm x 10.795 cm
label: Measurements
content: overall in case: 2 1/2 in x 4 1/4 in x 5 in; 6.35 cm x 10.795 cm x 12.7 cm