Dry Card Compass

Description:

Dry-card compass with a turned wood bowl gimbal mounted in a wood box, with a "R. S. BURROUGH." PROVIDENCE." inscription. It dates from around 1817 when Robert S. Burrough was in Providence, Rhode Island, selling and repairing nautical and other mathematical instruments.

Ref: Burrough advertisement in the New American Practical Navigator (1817).

Date Made: ca 1817

Maker: Burrough, Robert S.

Location: Currently not on view

Place Made: United States: Rhode Island, Providence

See more items in: Medicine and Science: Physical Sciences, Navigation, Measuring & Mapping

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Data Source: National Museum of American History

Id Number: 1992.0202.01Catalog Number: 1992.0202.01Accession Number: 1992.0202

Object Name: compassnautical compass (dry card)

Measurements: overall: 8 in; 20.32 cmoverall: 6 5/8 in x 10 3/16 in x 10 3/8 in; 16.8275 cm x 25.87625 cm x 26.3525 cm

Metadata Usage: CC0

Guid: https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746a9-82d0-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa

Record Id: nmah_1104528

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