Odograph Plotting Unit
notes: label: Description
content: Made for the U.S. Army in the early 1940s, the Odograph was designed to automatically plot the course of a moving vehicle. The inscription on this piece reads “Corps. of Engineers / U.S. Army / Land Odograph, M-1 / Plotting Unit / Manufactured by Monroe Calculating Machine Co. / Orange, N.J. / Voltage 6 / Serial 3A-6-M1-325.”
label: Description
content: Ref: U.S. War Department, <i>Odograph, Land Model M-1, September 7, 1943</i>; this is the Operating Instruction Manual.
label: Description
content: U.S. War Department, <i>Maintainance Instructions and Parts Catalog, Odograph, Land, Model M-1</i> (March 15, 1944).
label: Description
content: D. J. Faustman, “New Mapping Instrument Developed by Corps of Engineers,” <i>Civil Engineering</i> 14 (Dec. 1944): 493-495.
label: Description
content: D. J. Faustman, “Automatic Map Tracer for Land Navigation,” <i>Electronics</i> (Nov. 1944): 94-99.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
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content: Medicine and Science: Physical Sciences
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1999.0335.01
label: catalog number
content: 1999.0335.01
label: accession number
content: 1999.0335
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Odograph Plotting Unit