Object Details
- Cary, William
- Description
- This pantograph has four linked brass bars with rectangular cross section. The longer bars on the outside are 26 ½ inches long, the shorter bars on the inside 13 ¼ inches long. Two arms on the pantograph are marked for reducing and enlarging, both having with one scale ranging from ½ down to 1/12 and a second scale going from 11/12 down to 2/3. Once the wheels are screwed in, the pantograph slides along a table. This example has a tracer point but no pencil point and no weight. A mark on one arm reads: Cary London. It fits in a shaped wooden case.
- Compare MA.317868, MA.327891, MA.334888, and 2005.0182.8.
- According to Gloria Clifton, William Cary, his descendants and their associates in London sold instruments, including a pantograph, under the name Cary from 1789 until 1891.
- Reference:
- Gloria Clifton, Directory of British Scientific Instrument Makers 1550-1851, Zwemmer, 1995, p. 51.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- from 1789
- 1789-1891
- ID Number
- MA.317868
- accession number
- 231764
- catalog number
- 317868
- Object Name
- Pantograph
- Physical Description
- brass (overall material)
- hardwood (overall material)
- metal (overall material)
- Measurements
- overall: 9.5 cm x 70.2 cm x 14 cm; 3 3/4 in x 27 5/8 in x 5 1/2 in
- place made
- United Kingdom: England, London
- See more items in
- Medicine and Science: Mathematics
- Pantographs
- Science & Mathematics
- National Museum of American History
- Subject
- Mathematics
- Record ID
- nmah_904511
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746a7-3bfc-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa
