Felsenthal FAE-9A Artillery Protractor
date: label: date attributed by donor
content: 1957
name: label: maker
content: G. Felsenthal & Sons, Inc.
notes: label: Description
content: This clear plastic rectangular protractor is divided by single degrees and marked by tens from 10° to 170° and from 190° to 350°. Pinholes near the 20° and 60° marks allow for positioning the protractor. The bottom edge is divided by tenths of an inch and marked by ones from 1" to 5". The interior of the protractor contains three scales of equal parts: 1) divided by hundreds and marked by five hundreds from 0 to 2,500 yards, for a scale of 1/20,000; 2) divided by hundreds and marked by thousands from 0 to 7,000 yards, for a scale of 1/62,500; and 3) divided by hundreds and marked by five hundreds from 0 to 2,000 meters, for a scale of 1/20,000. There are verniers to the left of the first and third scales.
label: Description
content: Near the top of the protractor is marked: U.S. 1957. The 1957 is believed to refer to the date of the object. The maker's mark is: G. FELSENTHAL & SONS, INC. (/) PART NO. FAE-9A.
label: Description
content: This protractor is almost exactly like 1977.1141.08. See also 1977.1141.01, 1977.1141.02, 1977.1141.03, 1977.1141.05, 1977.1141.10, 1977.1141.11, 1977.1141.12, 1977.1141.18, 1977.1141.19, 1977.1141.20, 1977.1141.21, 1977.1141.22, 1977.1141.23, 1977.1141.24, 1977.1141.30, and 1977.1141.39.
label: Description
content: Reference: Deborah J. Warner, “Browse by Maker: Felsenthal,” <I>National Museum of American History Physical Sciences Collection: Navigation</I>, http://americanhistory.si.edu/collections/navigation/maker.cfm?makerid=173.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Illinois, Chicago
topic: label: Subject
content: Mathematics
label: Subject
content: Protractor
label: Subject
content: Artillery
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content: Medicine and Science: Mathematics
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content: Science & Mathematics
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content: Protractors
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Ben Wharton Rau and Margery Felsenthal Rau
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1977.1141.09
label: accession number
content: 1977.1141
label: catalog number
content: 336393
objectType: label: Object Name
content: protractor
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: plastic (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: .3 cm x 15.2 cm x 4.5 cm; 1/8 in x 5 31/32 in x 1 25/32 in