Keuffel & Esser Pocket Compass
Keuffel & Esser Pocket Compass
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- Description
- This compass has one folding sight; a slit in the lid serves as the second sight. Since the lid is mirrored, the user can read the needle while sighting a distant object. The floating card is graduated to degrees and numbered every ten degrees to 360. There is also a second (inner) row of numbers in quadrants, reversed for reading in the mirror. The signature reads "KEUFFEL & ESSER CO NEW-YORK" and it probably dates from the period 1890–1910. Keuffel & Esser donated it to the Smithsonian in 1972.
- Ref: Keuffel & Esser, Catalogue (New York, 1906), p.427.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Object Name
- Pocket Compass
- maker
- Keuffel & Esser Co.
- place made
- United States: New York, New York City
- Measurements
- overall: 4 in; 10.16 cm
- overall: 3 7/8 in x 4 1/4 in x 3 15/16 in; 9.8425 cm x 10.795 cm x 10.00125 cm
- ID Number
- PH.333759
- catalog number
- 333759
- accession number
- 306012
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- Medicine and Science: Physical Sciences
- Surveying and Geodesy
- Measuring & Mapping
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
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