Keuffel Esser Serial Numbers Transits
Keuffel Esser 5165 Engineer s Locating Transit The serial number on this nice looking and hard to find transit is 10973. It can be found on the plate near the.
Description
This is marked KEUFFEL ESSER CO NEW YORK. The firm termed it an Engineer s Mountain and Mining Transit, Model 5076. New, it cost 220. Its Solar Attachment, Model 5090, which is based on the design patented by G. N. Saegmuller in 1881, cost an additional 50. The serial number corresponds with a date of about 1908. By 1913, Keuffel Esser had changed the design of this transit in several small ways.
Ref: Keuffel Esser, Catalogue of Drawing Materials, Surveying Instruments New York, 1906, pp. 30-31 and 372.
Object Name
transit
date made
1908
maker
Keuffel Esser Co.
Measurements
overall: 14 in; 35.56 cm
horizontal circle: 5 1/2 in; 13.97 cm
needle: 3 1/2 in; 8.89 cm
vertical circle: 4 1/2 in; 11.43 cm
telescope: 9 in; 22.86 cm
hanging level: 4 1/2 in; 11.43 cm
place made
United States: New York, New York
ID Number
1989.0403.05
accession number
1989.0403
catalog number
subject
Measuring Mapping
Surveying and Geodesy
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Data Source
National Museum of American History, Kenneth E. Behring Center
cited
Keuffel Esser. Catalogue of Drawing Materials, Surveying Instruments
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The serial number corresponds with a date of about 1908. By 1913, Keuffel Esser had changed the design of this transit in several small ways. Ref: Keuffel.
History of Keuffel Esser. that were less expensive to produce, and serial numbers were then numbered in the K E sequence. Young Sons Incorporated.