Accession No

3369

Brief Description

solar compass and field notebooks of observations made with it, by W. D. Young and Sons, U.S.A., 1871 (c)

Origin

U.S.A.; Philadelphia

Maker

W. D. Young and Sons

Class

surveying

Earliest Date

1871

Latest Date

1871

Inscription Date

Material

paper; cloth; metal (brass); glass

Dimensions

box length 420mm; breadth 212mm; height 325mm notebook length 196mm; breadth 122mm

Special Collection

Provenance

Purchased from Tesseract, Hastings-on-Hudson, New York, USA, 04/04/1986. Purchased with the assistance of grant-in-aid from the Science Museum (PRISM).

Inscription

‘Wm. J. Young & Sons
MAKERS
Philadelphia’ (on stand for sights’ fixture)

Description Notes

Rusted brass instrument, similar shape to circumferentor, but with turnable plate lodged by screw clamp. Bubble is on this plate in raised case. Needle in glass-topped raised box on plate. Scale read through 2 glass view-holes on surface of plate as it turns. Angle and rotation fixed by screw fittings on 2 plates around the stem of the instrument, one forming the base stand. Box.

Condition: poor; complete.

Set of 8 notebooks with observations made in the Spokane Indian Reservation in the north west United States.

Condition good.

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