Felsenthal FAE-8 Artillery Protractor
date: label: date attributed by donor
content: 1945
label: date made
content: 1950s
name: label: maker
content: G. Felsenthal & Sons, Inc.
notes: label: Description
content: This clear plastic semicircular protractor is divided by tens and marked by hundreds from 100 to 3,100 mils and from 3,300 to 6,300 mils. Mils are units used in artillery and other military applications; 1,000 mils is equivalent to 56.25°. A pinhole is at the origin point. The bottom edge of the protractor is divided by hundreds and marked by thousands from 7,000 to 0. A vernier appears to the right of the scale. The scale is labeled: 1/25,000. Superimposed on the scale is a second scale, divided by two hundreds and marked (in red) by two thousands from 0 to 14,000. A vernier appears to the left of that scale, which is labeled (in red): 1/50,000 YARDS.
label: Description
content: The interior of the protractor has a semicircular opening with a groove parallel to the origin point. Below the opening is a maker's mark: 16 INCH (/) G. FELSENTHAL & SONS, INC. (/) -CHICAGO- (/) FAE-8. The letters U.S. are printed above the origin point. Donor Ben Rau dated the object to 1945, but the form of the signature indicates the protractor may not have been manufactured for the U.S. Army until the 1950s.
label: Description
content: This protractor is very similar to 1977.1141.12, although the scale for plotting the distance of fired artillery is in yards rather than in meters. The red ink on this instrument is particularly vibrant. See also 1977.1141.01, 1977.1141.02, 1977.1141.03, 1977.1141.05, 1977.1141.08, 1977.1141.09, 1977.1141.10, 1977.1141.11, 1977.1141.18, 1977.1141.20, 1977.1141.21, 1977.1141.22, 1977.1141.23, 1977.1141.24, 1977.1141.30, and 1977.1141.39.
label: Description
content: Reference: Deborah J. Warner, “Browse by Maker: Felsenthal,” <I>National Museum of American History Physical Sciences Collection: Navigation</I>, http://americanhistory.si.edu/collections/navigation/maker.cfm?makerid=173.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Illinois, Chicago
topic: label: Subject
content: Mathematics
label: Subject
content: Protractor
label: Subject
content: Artillery
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content: Medicine and Science: Mathematics
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content: Science & Mathematics
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content: Protractors
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Ben Wharton Rau and Margery Felsenthal Rau
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1977.1141.19
label: accession number
content: 1977.1141
label: catalog number
content: 336403
objectType: label: Object Name
content: protractor
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: plastic (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: .2 cm x 40.3 cm x 21.7 cm; 3/32 in x 15 7/8 in x 8 17/32 in