Sheet, Connections of Lamps on Dividing Engine
date: label: date made
content: 1914
notes: label: Description
content: This sheet is dated Oct. 21, 1914 and initialed JW. According to the accession file, the first shop foreman at the Department of Terrestrial Magnetism of the Carnegie Institution was J. Widner, who used the dividing engine extensivelt.
label: Description
content: It shows the placement of lamps around the top of a curcular dividing engine. It is part of the documentation for dividing iengine MA.328870 - documents relating to the machine have numbers 1987.0036.02 through 1987.0036.16.
label: Description
content: Reference:
label: Description
content: Accession file.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: District of Columbia, Washington
topic: label: Subject
content: Mathematics
label: Subject
content: Ruling and Dividing Engines
setName: label: See more items in
content: Medicine and Science: Mathematics
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of the Carnegie Institution of Washington, Department of Terrestrial Magnetism
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1987.0036.08
label: accession number
content: 1987.0036
label: catalog number
content: 1987.0036.08
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Sheet
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: paper (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 12.8 cm x 20.3 cm; 5 1/32 in x 8 in