Instructions for Lasico Square Root Planimeter
date: label: date made
content: 1940s
name: label: maker
content: Los Angeles Scientific Instrument Company
notes: label: Description
content: This four-page pamphlet shows model 125 of the Lasico square root planimeter, which sold in the 1940s for $135.00. It had a tracer point, unlike the later model 2000-V (2011.0043.01 and 2011.0043.02), which had a tracer lens. The pamphlet explains how to read the instrument and apply its readings to rate of flow calculations.
label: Description
content: Reference: <i>Lasico Mathematical Engineering Instruments</i> (Los Angeles: Los Angeles Scientific Instrument Company, [1940–1945]), B-9.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: California, Los Angeles
topic: label: Subject
content: Mathematics
label: Subject
content: Engineering
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content: Medicine and Science: Mathematics
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content: Planimeters
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content: Science & Mathematics
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Maximilian Berktold
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2011.0043.01.01
label: accession number
content: 2011.0043
label: catalog number
content: 2011.0043.01.01
objectType: label: Object Name
content: pamphlet
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: paper (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 15.2 cm x 22.9 cm; 5 31/32 in x 9 1/32 in