Omnimeter

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Description:

Keuffel & Esser boasted that their Pocket Omnimeter “combines compass, clinometer, hand level, plumb, alidade, and contact level; it will indicate magnetic bearings, azimuth angles, altitudes, levels and slopes.” The form was to be had by 1904.

Ref: Keuffel & Esser, Catalogue (New York, 1913), p. 441.

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Data Source: National Museum of American History

Id Number: PH.333761Catalog Number: 333761Accession Number: 306012

Object Name: omnimeter

Measurements: overall: 2 1/8 in x 8 1/8 in x 6 1/2 in; 5.3975 cm x 20.6375 cm x 16.51 cmoverall in case: 2 1/8 in x 8 1/8 in x 6 1/2 in; 5.3975 cm x 20.6375 cm x 16.51 cm

Metadata Usage: CC0

Guid: http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746b2-c386-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa

Record Id: nmah_1762446

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