Surveyor's Transit
Surveyor's Transit
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- Description
- This surveyor's transit with a "Stackpole & Brother New York 1748" inscription was probably made in the 1870s. The horizontal circle is silvered, graduated to 20 minutes of arc, and read by opposite verniers to single minutes. There is a hanging level, and a clamp and tangent screw on the horizontal axis.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Object Name
- surveyor's transit
- maker
- Stackpole and Brother
- place made
- United States: New York, New York City
- Measurements
- overall: 12 in; 30.48 cm
- horizontal circle: 6 in; 15.24 cm
- needle: 4 1/2 in; 11.43 cm
- telescope: 10 1/4 in; 26.035 cm
- hanging level: 6 in; 15.24 cm
- overall in case: 14 1/4 in x 13 1/2 in x 9 5/8 in; 36.195 cm x 34.29 cm x 24.4475 cm
- ID Number
- PH.330482
- maker number
- 1748
- catalog number
- 330482
- accession number
- 296855
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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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