Object Details
- maker; author
- Amsler, Jacob
- Description
- This undated large 4-page booklet is titled, "Instructions for Using Amsler's Planimeters." It describes and depicts nine types of polar planimeter sold by the firm established by Jacob Amsler in Schaffhausen, Switzerland, in 1854, but in less detail than the German-language pamphlet, 1986.0316.09. As in that pamphlet, the arms of Types 1 and 2 are equal in length, even though some surviving examples and advertisements such as Dietzgen's 1904 and 1926 catalogs have a shorter tracer arm. Dietzgen also sold Types 4 and 6 in 1904 and Type 4 in 1926.
- References: Catalogue & Price List of Eugene Dietzgen Co., 7th ed. (Chicago, 1904), 360–361; Catalogue & Price List of Eugene Dietzgen Co., 12th ed. (Chicago, 1926), 180–181.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Credit Line
- Gift of Norton Starr
- after 1912
- ID Number
- 1999.0250.02
- accession number
- 1999.0250
- catalog number
- 1999.0250.02
- Object Name
- leaflet
- Physical Description
- paper (overall material)
- Measurements
- overall: 30.7 cm x 22.4 cm x .1 cm; 12 3/32 in x 8 13/16 in x 1/32 in
- See more items in
- Medicine and Science: Mathematics
- Planimeters
- Science & Mathematics
- National Museum of American History
- Subject
- Mathematics
- Engineering
- Record ID
- nmah_694709
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746a5-1c36-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa
