Object Details
- Description
- This 18th-century brass drawing instrument appears to be mostly handcrafted. The needle point is relatively broad, and the pen point is shaped like a spade. Both legs are decorated with four horizontal lines, and the leg with the needle point is engraved with a horseshoe. Both sides of both legs have an apparently intentional gouge shaped like a triangle. The joint is round with a ridge around the bottom.
- Reference:
- Sotheby & Company, Catalogue of a Collection of Scientific Instruments, the Property of the Late Henry Russel Wray, London, 1959 (a copy of the catalogue is in the accession file).
- Location
- Currently not on view
- 18th century
- ID Number
- MA.316928
- accession number
- 219305
- catalog number
- 316928
- Object Name
- compass, drawing
- drawing compass
- Physical Description
- brass (overall material)
- Measurements
- overall: 10.2 cm x 1.1 cm x .8 cm; 4 1/32 in x 7/16 in x 5/16 in
- place made
- Europe
- See more items in
- Medicine and Science: Mathematics
- Science & Mathematics
- Dividers and Compasses
- National Museum of American History
- Subject
- Mathematics
- Drawing Instruments
- Record ID
- nmah_904330
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746a7-3913-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa
