Japanese Instrument
date: label: date made
content: ca 1876
notes: label: Description
content: This flat rectangular brass instrument has four sets of lines on it, two sets on each side. Each set consists of four nested L-shaped lines and six shorter lines that run across them. Some of the shorter lines are straight, others are curved. A thin, short metal bar is inset in one side of the instrument. According to old cataloging, the instrument is marked in Japanese "kakuchaku hanki hyo." The object also was cataloged at one time as a sundial.
label: Description
content: The instrument was received with group of Japanese devices exhibited at the Centennial Expositon, a world's fair held in Philadelphia in1876.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: Japan
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: Transfer from Bureau of Education, Department of the Interior
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: MA.261317
label: accession number
content: 51116
label: catalog number
content: 261317
objectType: label: Object Name
content: drawing instrument
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: brass (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: .2 cm x 11.1 cm x 6.1 cm; 3/32 in x 4 3/8 in x 2 13/32 in