Instrument for Aeronautical Calculations, Crocco Flessigrafo
date: label: date made
content: ca 1912
name: label: maker
content: Crocco, Gaetano Arturo
notes: label: Description
content: This instrument was used to trace the main section of a semi-rigid housing of an aircraft. It is based on the design of the Italian aeronautical engineer Gaetano Arturo Crocco (1877-1968). A version of the instrument is shown in Crocco’s collected works, and dated around 1912. The illustration there shows a glass lens that does not seem to be in this example.
label: Description
content: The object is in a wooden case.
label: Description
content: References:
label: Description
content: G. Arturo Crocco, <I>Problemi Aeronautici Dalgli Albori Fino Alla Guerra</I>, Rome: Dott. Palo Cremonese, 1933, Plate XX (opposite page 365).
label: Description
content: Umberto D'Aquino, "Crocco, Gaetano Arturo," <I>Biographical Dictionary of Italians</I>, 31 (1985).
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.271855.04
label: accession number
content: 271855
label: catalog number
content: 271855.04
objectType: label: Object Name
content: drawing instrument
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: metal (overall material)
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content: wood (case material)
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content: cloth (lining material)
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content: glass (level cover material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 28.2 cm x 68 cm x 49.5 cm; 11 3/32 in x 26 25/32 in x 19 1/2 in