Abacus
notes: label: Description
content: This Japanese abacus (or soroban) has twenty-seven columns of white plastic beads, divided by a crossbar. Each column has four beads below the crossbar and one above, as is usual in such instruments. It was collected as evidence of the use of celluloid. It has no maker’s mark and no known provenance.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: Japan
setName: label: See more items in
content: Medicine and Science: Chemistry
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2006.0098.1524
label: catalog number
content: 2006.0098.1524
label: accession number
content: 2006.0098
objectType: label: Object Name
content: abacus
label: Object Name
content: soroban
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: faux wood (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: cellulose nitrate (beads material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 6.3 cm x 34.7 cm x 1.8 cm; 2 1/2 in x 13 11/16 in x 11/16 in
label: Measurements
content: overall: 3/4 in x 13 3/4 in x 2 1/2 in; 1.905 cm x 34.925 cm x 6.35 cm