Object Details
- Eugene Dietzgen Company
- Description
- This instrument is marked "DIETZGEN 10823." Dietzgen introduced the form around 1920, termed it a Highway Transit, and was still offering in the late 1930s. The horizontal circle is silvered, graduated in both directions, and read by opposite verniers to single minutes. The vertical circle is silvered, graduated, and read by vernier to single minutes. There are clamps and tangent screws to the horizontal circle and to the telescope axis. This example belonged to the University of Montana and, when new, cost $260.
- Ref: Eugene Dietzgen Co., Catalogue (Chicago, 1921), pp. 334-335.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Credit Line
- University of Montana, School of Forestry, Montana Forest and Conservation Experiment Station
- ID Number
- 1984.0636.10
- catalog number
- 1984.0636.10
- accession number
- 1984.0636
- Object Name
- surveyor's transit
- Measurements
- overall: 12 1/2 in; 31.75 cm
- horizontal circle: 5 1/4 in; 13.335 cm
- vertical circle: 4 1/2 in; 11.43 cm
- needle: 3 3/4 in; 9.525 cm
- telescope: 9 1/2 in; 24.13 cm
- hanging level: 5 in; 12.7 cm
- overall in case: 14 1/2 in x 8 in x 11 1/2 in; 36.83 cm x 20.32 cm x 29.21 cm
- place made
- United States: Illinois, Chicago
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- Medicine and Science: Physical Sciences
- Surveying and Geodesy
- Measuring & Mapping
- National Museum of American History
- Record ID
- nmah_997285
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746a8-64f7-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa
