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Maker: T. F. Randolph - Cincinnati, OH
Telescope Length: 10-1/2"
Diameter of Horizontal Circle: 6-1/2"
Needle Length: 4-3/4"
Diameter of Vertical Arc: 1/2 arc, 5"
Height: 11-1/2"
Weight: 16-3/4 lb
Box: 16"H, 8-3/4"W, 11-1/2"D
Condition: Very Good
Drill hole for Burt solar attachment
Found: October 21, 1966 - Buff&Buff Co., Boston, MA
CEH
Inventory# T9
Excerpted from “Makers of
Surveying Instruments of America since 1700” by Charles Smart, 1962, Vol
1, p. 133:
THEODORE F. RANDOLPH (1829 - 1898)
He was born in Ohio in 1829. He
died December 26, 1898, in Cincinnati (Obituary in Cincinnati Enquirer,
December 27, 1898 reports he died of injuries suffered in falling from a
crowded streetcar).
Randolph’s business listed for the first time in 1853 Cincinnati
Directory as follows; Randolph, J. F. & Bro. (T. F. & Jas. F.)
mathematical instrument manufacturers, N. W. cr. 5th & Walnut.
Company listed for the last time in 1941 Cincinnati Directory with
Arthur J. Roedel named as proprietor.
LEADING MANUFACTURERS AND MERCHANTS OF CINCINNATI AND
ENVIRONS
International Publishing Co., Publishers - 1886 Boston, Cincinnati,
and Chicago, p. 123
T. F. Randolph,
Manufacturer, Importer and Dealer in Surveyor’s and Engineers’
Instruments, etc. No. 51 West Fourth Street, Room 31, Carlisle Building.
-This gentleman is one of the most experienced and successful
manufacturers of surveyors’ instruments, etc., in the country. His
experience covers a period of near half a century, and has been
established in this line of business in this city for the past forty
years. He is a native of Ohio, is the proprietor of numerous patents,
has a well-equipped factory, furnished with steam power, and affording
employment to a large number of hands. He is the sole manufacturer of
Randolph’s new patent telescope compass, patent telescope attachment for
common compasses, patent quick leveling tripod, patent sole leather
boxes, and patent daisy level. Mr. Randolph’s manufactures have not been
exhibited in any fair or exposition since 1874, but in September, 1857,
his surveyor’s compass took the first premium at the Ohio State Fair. At
the fair of the Ohio Mechanics’ Institute, held in this city in 1858, he
was, after a most scrutinizing examination by competent judges, awarded
a medal for his theodolite transit, Y level, Dumpy level, and
surveyor’s’ compasses. At the United States Agricultural Fair, held at
Cincinnati in September, 1860, he was awarded silver medals for a
theodolite and surveyors’ compass. He also received first premium silver
medals at the Cincinnati Industrial Expositions, 1871-74. Mr. Randolph,
in addition to his own manufactures, carries a large stock of imported
goods, and also second-hand instruments, which he has put in through
repair. All kinds of instruments are promptly repaired. The products of
this house are appreciated everywhere by engineers and surveyors, and
Mr. Randolph controls a large trade. For twenty years the city was built
with his instruments.
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