Object Details
- Spencer, Browning & Co.
- Description
- Sextant with a brass frame. The silvered scale is graduated every 10 minutes from -5° to +125° and read by vernier with tangent screw and swinging magnifier to 10 seconds. The "Spencer Browning & Co. London" inscription refers to a firm that was in business from 1840 to 1870. The serial number is "5861."
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Credit Line
- Princeton University Observatory
- 1840-1870
- ID Number
- PH.328887
- accession number
- 277637
- catalog number
- 328887
- Object Name
- sextant
- Physical Description
- brass (overall material)
- silver (overall material)
- ebony (overall material)
- glass (overall material)
- Measurements
- radius: 7 1/2 in; 19.05 cm
- overall: 4 1/4 in x 11 in x 9 1/2 in; 10.795 cm x 27.94 cm x 24.13 cm
- place made
- United Kingdom: England, London
- See more items in
- Medicine and Science: Physical Sciences
- Navigation
- Measuring & Mapping
- National Museum of American History
- Record ID
- nmah_1057798
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746a8-ffd4-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa
