Object Details
- Starke, Christoph
- Description
- This flyer is printed in German and describes the capabilities of 1986.0633.01, a wheel and disc planimeter invented in the mid-19th century. It was printed by Ludwig Mayer in Vienna and is marked: Draht Nro. 3 (11). It is signed by Starke & Kammerer. Gustav Starke (1832–1917), son of the Vienna instrument maker Georg Christoph Starke (1794–1865), formed a partnership with Karl Kammerer in 1873 that sold scientific instruments until 1917, although Starke apparently moved to Switzerland by 1904. Their sons, both named Gustav, operated a branch of the firm in San Francisco from 1889 to 1892.
- The photograph also shows 1986.0633.03, an older copy of the flyer; three tacks and a key that were found in the case for 1986.0633.01; and a heavy spring around a bolt with a hook that was received with the object but apparently does not belong to it.
- Reference: Louis F. Drummeter, Jr., "Starke & Kammerer in San Francisco," Rittenhouse 5 (1990): 25–32.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- after 1866
- ID Number
- 1986.0633.02
- accession number
- 1986.0633
- catalog number
- 1986.0633.02
- Object Name
- sheet
- Physical Description
- paper (overall material)
- Measurements
- overall: 28 cm x 21.5 cm; 11 1/32 in x 8 15/32 in
- place made
- Austria: Vienna state, Vienna
- See more items in
- Medicine and Science: Mathematics
- Planimeters
- Science & Mathematics
- National Museum of American History
- Subject
- Mathematics
- Surveying
- Record ID
- nmah_904616
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746a7-4955-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa
