Earth Inductor
date: label: date made
content: ca 1950
notes: label: Description
content: This earth inductor, U.S.C.&G.S. No. 8, was made at the U.S. Naval Observatory in the 1940s and used at a U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey Magnetic Observatory at Sitka, Alaska, beginning in 1951.
label: Description
content: Ref: William E. Wiles, “A Modified Wild-Pattern Earth-Inductor Inclinometer,” <i>EOS</i> (Aug. 1948): 476-478.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
setName: label: See more items in
content: Medicine and Science: Physical Sciences
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1982.0671.01
label: catalog number
content: 1982.0671.01
label: accession number
content: 1982.0671
objectType: label: Object Name
content: earth inductor
label: Object Name
content: earth inductor
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: case: 18 in x 15 1/2 in x 16 1/4 in; 45.72 cm x 39.37 cm x 41.275 cm