Geodetic Transit
name: label: maker
content: Fauth & Co.
notes: label: Description
content: The "Fauth & Co. Washn D.C." inscription indicates that this instrument was made after 1874 when Fauth & Co. began in business, and before 1887, when Saegmuller began putting serial numbers on Fauth instruments. Fauth termed it a "Combined Transit and Zenith Instrument, as devised by Prof. G. Davidson, U. S. C. S." The frame consists of two parts—the upper one, with the uprights, can revolve upon the lower. New, it cost $990. This example, which came from Columbia University, differs from the instrument shown in the Fauth Catalogue. Here the small vertical circles are placed at one end of the horizontal axis.
label: Description
content: Ref: Fauth & Co., <i>Catalogue of Astronomical and Surveying Instruments</i> (Washington, D.C., 1877), pp. 20–21.
label: Description
content: George Davidson, "Description of the Davidson Meridian Instrument," <i>United States Coast and Geodetic Survey Annual Report</i> (1879), Appendix No. 7.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: District of Columbia, Washington
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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: Fauth & Co.. Catalogue of Astronomical and Surveying Instruments, 1877
label: Related Publication
content: United States Coast and Geodetic Survey. United States Coast and Geodetic Survey Annual Report
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Columbia University
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: PH.335214
label: catalog number
content: 335214
label: accession number
content: 317998
objectType: label: Object Name
content: geodetic transit
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: aperture: 2 1/2 in; x 6.35 cm
label: Measurements
content: overall length: 28 in; x 71.12 cm