Product Description for Wetli & Starke Planimeter No. 44
date: label: date made
content: after 1866
name: label: maker
content: Starke, Christoph
notes: label: Description
content: 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.
label: Description
content: 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.
label: Description
content: Reference: Louis F. Drummeter, Jr., "Starke & Kammerer in San Francisco," <i>Rittenhouse</i> 5 (1990): 25–32.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: Austria: Vienna state, Vienna
topic: label: Subject
content: Mathematics
label: Subject
content: Surveying
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content: Medicine and Science: Mathematics
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content: Planimeters
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content: Science & Mathematics
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1986.0633.02
label: accession number
content: 1986.0633
label: catalog number
content: 1986.0633.02
objectType: label: Object Name
content: sheet
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: paper (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 28 cm x 21.5 cm; 11 1/32 in x 8 15/32 in