Object Details
- Keuffel & Esser Co.
- Description
- Range finder with a "STADIMETER U.S. NAVY BUREAU OF ORDNANCE MARK III MOD. 1 NO. 409 / 1918 INSPEC. CHD MADE BY KEUFFEL & ESSER CO. NEW YORK" inscriptions. Unlike the other examples in the collection, this one has a telescopic sight. It was made during World War I. The form was developed in the 1890s by the innovative American naval officer, Bradley Allen Fiske (1854-1942).
- Ref: Instructions for the Use and Care of the Fiske Ship-Telegraphs and Stadimeter (Published by Authority of the Bureau of Ordnance, Navy Department, 1896).
- Paolo E. Coletta, Admiral Bradley A. Fiske and the American Navy (Lawrence: University of Kansas Press, 1979), pp. 38-40.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Credit Line
- U.S. Department of Defense, National Imagery and Mapping Agency, Geodesy and Geophysics Department
- ID Number
- 2000.0257.03
- accession number
- 2000.0257
- catalog number
- 2000.0257.03
- Object Name
- range finder
- place made
- United States: New York
- Related Publication
- Coletta, Paolo E.. Admiral Bradley A. Fiske and the American Navy
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- Medicine and Science: Physical Sciences
- Surveying and Geodesy
- Measuring & Mapping
- National Museum of American History
- Record ID
- nmah_761615
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746a5-6fc1-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa
