Sextant
date: label: date made
content: ca 1906
name: label: maker
content: C. Plath
notes: label: Description
content: This sextant has a blackened brass frame. The silvered scale is graduated every 10 minutes from about -5° to +155° and read by vernier with tangent screw and swinging magnifier to single seconds of arc. The inscription reads "C. Plath Hamburg" and "2625." The serial number suggests that it was made around 1906. Captain Paul K. R. Salo acquired it in California in the early 1930s.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: Germany: Hamburg, Hamburg
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content: Medicine and Science: Physical Sciences
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content: Measuring & Mapping
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Mrs. P. K. R. Salo
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: PH.333959
label: accession number
content: 310550
label: catalog number
content: 333959
objectType: label: Object Name
content: sextant
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: brass (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: case: 5 1/4 in x 11 3/16 in x 11 1/2 in; 13.335 cm x 28.41625 cm x 29.21 cm
label: Measurements
content: overall in case: 5 1/8 in x 11 1/8 in x 11 1/2 in; 13.0175 cm x 28.2575 cm x 29.21 cm