Tally Register
Object Details
- Description
- This tally register (or counter) belonged to Spencer Fullerton Baird (1823-1887), the naturalist who served as the second Secretary of the Smithsonian. The inscription reads “BENTON MFG. CO. / NEW-YORK.” The firm was begun in 1874 by John Barnaby Benton, a civil engineer and inventor, and may have been the first make devices of this sort.
- Ref: “Tallying Instrument,” Carpentry and Building 5 (Feb. 1, 1883): 32.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
- ID Number
- PH.284279
- catalog number
- 284279
- accession number
- 55865
- Object Name
- Register
- Measurements
- overall: 2.5 cm x 6.3 cm x 8 cm; 31/32 in x 2 15/32 in x 3 5/32 in
- overall: 1 in x 2 1/2 in x 3 1/16 in; 2.54 cm x 6.35 cm x 7.77875 cm
- place made
- United States: New York, New York City
- See more items in
- Medicine and Science: Physical Sciences
- Record ID
- nmah_1183994
