Accession No

3886

Brief Description

altimeter, Wallace & Tierman Products Inc., U.S.A., 1955 (c)

Origin

U.S.A.; New Jersey; Belleville

Maker

Wallace and Tierman Products Inc.

Class

surveying

Earliest Date

1955

Latest Date

1955

Inscription Date

Material

metal; wood; cloth

Dimensions

box length 173mm; breadth 172mm; height 104mm

Special Collection

Provenance

Transferred from Department of Geography, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, England, 1992.

Inscription

‘ALTITUDE
HUNDRED FEET
ZERO ON THIS SCALE EQUALS
-1000 FT. OF SM TABLE 51
U.S. CORPS OF ENGINEERS NO. 6-1691’

Description Notes

Aneroid barometer made into an altimeter, in a fitted box. The lid has a correction table fitted inside.

Condition: fair; complete.

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