Object Details
- Description
- This German silver instrument has a handle and ridged ring at its top. Both legs have screws partway down and thumbscrews at the ends for adjusting the angles of the points. A piece of lead is in the receptacle at the end of one leg. The end of the other leg has a steel point. The instrument has no markings. Similar but shorter compasses from Germany are advertised for $2.15 in Keuffel & Esser's 1892 and 1909 catalogs. The instrument is not shown in the 1921 catalog.
- References: Catalogue and Price-List of Keuffel & Esser Co., 23rd ed. (New York, 1892), 61; Catalogue and Price-List of Keuffel & Esser Co., 33rd ed. (New York, 1909), 108.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Credit Line
- Gift of Eunice L. Hoffman
- ca 1900
- ID Number
- MA.335340
- accession number
- 305958
- catalog number
- 335340
- Object Name
- compass
- compass, drawing
- Physical Description
- german silver (overall material)
- Measurements
- overall: .7 cm x 10.5 cm x 1 cm; 9/32 in x 4 1/8 in x 13/32 in
- place made
- Germany
- 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_904354
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746a7-2f95-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa
