Accession No

2675

Brief Description

surveyors transit (incomplete), 1900 (c)

Origin

Maker

Class

surveying

Earliest Date

1900

Latest Date

1900

Inscription Date

Material

metal (brass, silver); glass

Dimensions

height 280mm; breadth 195mm; depth 200mm

Special Collection

Provenance

Transferred from Department of Geography, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, England, 05/1969.

Inscription

Description Notes

Brass; telescope mounted in H-shaped frame. Rack and pinion focus moving eyepiece. Transits over both ends. Bubble can be mounted over either side of telescope. Vertical circle; scale engraved on silver graduated 0-90-0˚ to 20’ of arc. Read by vernier, with reading glass, to 1’ of arc. Clamp and slow motion screw. Dished base. Tribach levelling feet. Over telescope square plate with circular aperture (?once held compass/horizontal circle).

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