Surveyor's Transit
Surveyor's Transit
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- Description
- This is an Engineer's Mountain and Mining Transit, Model 5076. New, it cost $220. The Solar Attachment, Model 5090, based on the design patented by G. N. Saegmuller in 1881, cost an additional $50. The inscription on the compass dial reads “KEUFFEL & ESSER CO. / NEW YORK.” The 18373 serial number corresponds with a date of about 1908. By 1913, Keuffel & Esser had changed the design of this transit in several small ways.
- Ref: Keuffel & Esser, Catalogue of Drawing Materials, Surveying Instruments (New York, 1906), pp. 30-31 and 372.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Object Name
- surveyor's transit
- date made
- 1908
- maker
- Keuffel & Esser Co.
- place made
- United States: New York, New York City
- Measurements
- overall: 14 in; 35.56 cm
- horizontal circle: 5 1/2 in; 13.97 cm
- needle: 3 1/2 in; 8.89 cm
- vertical circle: 4 1/2 in; 11.43 cm
- telescope: 9 in; 22.86 cm
- hanging level: 4 1/2 in; 11.43 cm
- overall: 14 1/2 in x 10 1/2 in x 8 1/8 in; 36.83 cm x 26.67 cm x 20.6375 cm
- ID Number
- 1989.0403.05
- accession number
- 1989.0403
- catalog number
- 1989.0403.05
- Credit Line
- LaVerne Watkins
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- Medicine and Science: Physical Sciences
- Measuring & Mapping
- Surveying and Geodesy
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
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