Japanese Combination Set Square and Protractor
date: label: date made
content: ca 1876
notes: label: Description
content: This brass instrument combines a set square and a portion of a protractor. A scale along the outside of the long beveled edge of the set square is divided into units about 15/16 inches long, subdivided to twentieths. A scale of equal parts runs along the curved rim which is adjacent to and outside the short edge of the set square. Neither scale has numbers.
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.261312
label: accession number
content: 51116
label: catalog number
content: 261312
objectType: label: Object Name
content: drawing instrument
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: metal (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: .2 cm x 17 cm x 7.7 cm; 3/32 in x 6 11/16 in x 3 1/32 in