This instrument belonged to the Carnegie Institution of Washington, and was probably made in the early 1900s by Max Thomas Edelmann of Munich.
Ref: M. Th. Edelmann, "On the Construction of Earth-Magnetic Instruments," Weather Bureau Bulletin 11 (1893): 511-539.
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