Astrograph
name: label: maker
content: Sperti, Inc.
notes: label: Description
content: The Astrograph is essentially a star map projector designed for use at high latitudes. The basic idea originated with the Royal Aircraft Establishment, and the details were worked out by Kodak, Ltd. A metal tag on this American example reads, in part, “ASTROGRAPH TYPE A-1 / PROPERTY U.S. ARMY AIR FORCES” and “SPERTI INC. CINCINNATI, O. U.S.A.”
label: Description
content: The firm was formed to capitalize on the discoveries of the Institutum Divi Thomas, under the direction of Dr. George Sperti Sperti (1900-1991), an Italian-American inventor.
label: Description
content: Ref: “Scientific Research Only Limit to Sperti Progress; Products Range From Ultraviolet Lamps to Feeds,” The Cincinnati Inquirer (Sept. 3, 1945), p. 18.
label: Description
content: “The Kodak Astrograph,” Flight (Sept. 30, 1943): 370-372.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Ohio, Cincinnati
setName: label: See more items in
content: Medicine and Science: Physical Sciences
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: ZZ.RSN79582Z05
objectType: label: Object Name
content: astrograph
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 10 in x 14 1/2 in x 11 in; 25.4 cm x 36.83 cm x 27.94 cm