Stackpole & Brother Transit
Stackpole & Brother Transit
- Description
- This is marked "Stackpole & Brother New York 1748" and was probably made in the mid-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
- maker
- Stackpole and Brother
- place made
- United States: New York, New York
- 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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- Surveying and Geodesy
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
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