Octant
date: label: date made
content: ca 1800
name: label: maker
content: Newell, Andrew
notes: label: Description
content: Octant with a rosewood frame, flat brass index arm, and ivory name plate. The ivory scale is graduated every 20 minutes from -5° to +95° and read by vernier to single minutes of arc. The "Andw Newell Maker Boston" inscription refers to Andrew Newell (1751-1798), a mathematical instrument maker in Boston. Inside the box is the trade card of David Baker, proprietor of a nautical instrument shop in New Bedford during the second quarter of the nineteenth century.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Massachusetts, Boston
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content: Medicine and Science: Physical Sciences
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content: Time and Navigation
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content: Measuring & Mapping
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1991.0140.01.01
label: catalog number
content: 1991.0140.01.01
label: accession number
content: 1991.0140
objectType: label: Object Name
content: octant
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 7.94 cm x 38.7 cm x 33 cm; 3 1/8 in x 15 1/4 in x 13 in