Dry Card Compass

National Museum of American History

Object Details

Burrough, Robert S.
Description
Dry-card compass with a turned wood bowl gimbal mounted in a wood box, with a "R. S. BURROUGH." PROVIDENCE." inscription. It dates from around 1817 when Robert S. Burrough was in Providence, Rhode Island, selling and repairing nautical and other mathematical instruments.
Ref: Burrough advertisement in the New American Practical Navigator (1817).
Location
Currently not on view
ca 1817
ID Number
1992.0202.01
catalog number
1992.0202.01
accession number
1992.0202
Object Name
compass
nautical compass (dry card)
Measurements
overall: 8 in; 20.32 cm
overall: 6 5/8 in x 10 3/16 in x 10 3/8 in; 16.8275 cm x 25.87625 cm x 26.3525 cm
place made
United States: Rhode Island, Providence
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Record ID
nmah_1104528
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