Indicatore di Rotta Crocco, Crocco Drift Indicator or Drift Sight for Aerial Navigation
name: label: maker
content: Crocco, Gaetano Arturo
notes: label: Description
content: This metal instrument was used for indicating the path of airplanes. It has a metal frame, several interconnected scales, and two bubble levels. The instrument and several parts are in a wooden case. The Italian mathematician and aeronautical engineer Gaetano Arturo Crocco (1877-1968) invented it in the device in 1919.
label: Description
content: Compare NASM object A19570241000.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: Italy
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: Gift of the Museum of Science and Industry, Chicago
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: MA.271855.05
label: accession number
content: 271855
label: catalog number
content: 271855.05
objectType: label: Object Name
content: route indicator
label: Object Name
content: drift indicator
label: Object Name
content: drift sight
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 23.3 cm x 55 cm x 37.7 cm; 9 3/16 in x 21 21/32 in x 14 27/32 in