Ware Solar Compass
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The inscription reads: \"Ralph Reeder Patentee, Cincinnati, Ohio. HENRY WARE, MAKER, CINCINNATI, O.\""}, {"label": "Description", "content": "<i>Scientific American</i> reported that this instrument combines \"three important uses.\" It shows \"the local variation of the magnetic needle with unerring certainty,\" \"the altitude of the sun, and thus enables the mariner readily to compute latitude.\" and \"the true time\" and thus \"by the aid of the chronometer, shows the longitude.\" Despite journal's opinion that Reeder\u00e2\u0080\u0099s instrument \"appears to be a practically useful invention,\" the Mariner\u00e2\u0080\u0099s Time-Compass was not a commercial success. The U.S. Patent Office transferred this model to the Smithsonian in 1926."}, {"label": "Description", "content": "Henry Ware (1810-1885) was a leading instrument maker in Cincinnati."}, {"label": "Description", "content": "Ref: Ralph Reeder, \"Mariner's Time Compass,\" U.S. Patent #4,964 (1847)."}, {"label": "Description", "content": "\"Improved Nautical Instrument,\" <i>Scientific American</i> 12 (1856): 4."}, {"label": "Location", "content": "Currently not on view"}], "name": [{"label": "maker", "content": "Henry Ware"}], "place": [{"label": "place made", "content": "United States: Ohio, Cincinnati"}], "physicalDescription": [{"label": "Measurements", "content": "overall: 15 in x 8 in; 38.1 cm x 20.32 cm"}, {"label": "Measurements", "content": "overall: 16 in x 9 in; 40.64 cm x 22.86 cm"}], "dataSource": [{"label": "Data Source", "content": "National Museum of American History"}], "objectType": [{"label": "Object Name", "content": "Nautical Compass"}, {"label": "Object Type", "content": "Patent Model"}]}}, "url": "edanmdm:nmah_1167860", "hash": "e10d73e482d6668ef8d952d329e64ec3c541ca16", "docSignature": "64b4b1c2ce91c56cd494afcc4caaf3ca", "timestamp": 1663782461, "lastTimeUpdated": 1655973882, "title": "Ware Solar Compass"}