Japanese Clinometer
date: label: date made
content: ca 1876
notes: label: Description
content: This brass instrument consists of a pendulum pivoted on an angular scale. The scale appears to be a quadrant of a circle, divided into 100 parts. The divisions are not equal. A hole above the pivot may be for mounting the instrument.
label: Description
content: The object was received with group of Japanese instruments exhibited at the Centennial Expositon, a world's fair held in Philadelphia in1876.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: Japan
topic: label: Subject
content: Mathematics
label: Subject
content: Drafting, Engineering
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content: Medicine and Science: Mathematics
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content: Single Drawing Instruments
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content: Science & Mathematics
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Transfer from Bureau of Education, Department of the Interior
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: MA.261303
label: catalog number
content: 261303
label: accession number
content: 51116
objectType: label: Object Name
content: clinometer
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: .4 cm x 15.6 cm x 17.2 cm; 5/32 in x 6 5/32 in x 6 25/32 in