Galton’s Instrument for the Estimation of Angles
name: label: used at
content: Cornell University
label: maker
content: Cambridge & Paul Instrument Co., Ltd.
notes: label: Description
content: An inscription on this Galton Instrument for the Estimation of Angles reads “THE CAMBRIDGE / SCIENTIFIC INSTRUMENT Co Ltd / CAMBRIDGE ENGLAND / No 2971.”
label: Description
content: Ref: A Descriptive List of Anthropometric Apparatus: Consisting of Instruments for Measuring and Testing the Chief Physical Characteristics of the Human Body Designed under the Direction of Mr. Francis Galton, and Manufactured and Sold by the Cambridge Scientific Instrument Company (Cambridge, 1887).
label: Description
content: The Cambridge Scientific Instrument Society, Physiological Instruments (Cambridge, 1899), p. 109.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United Kingdom: England, Cambridge
setName: label: See more items in
content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Cornell University Department of Psychology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: MG.300427.165
label: catalog number
content: 300427.165
label: accession number
content: 300427
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Disc, Estimating
label: Object Name
content: estimating disc
label: Other Terms
content: Disc, Estimating; Diagnostic Medicine
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: plastic (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: bakelite (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: .03 cm x 20.4 cm; in x 8 1/16 in