Description

This clear plastic sixth-circle protractor is graduated into 10 groups of 20 divisions, each labeled with the number 50. The unit of angular measure is mils, which was utilized in artillery applications. There are 6,400 mils in a circle (i.e., 1 mil = 0.05625 degrees). The arc on this instrument is 1,000 mils, or 56.25 degrees, in length.

An arm extends from the left side of the protractor. The arm is divided to half-units and marked by five (scaled) meters from 160 to 10. Two holes with diameters of 5mm are next to the 145–140 and 30–25 marks. The vertex of the protractor bears a small notch.

The interior of the protractor is marked: PROTRACTOR, RANGE DEFLECTION (/) SCALE 1:25,000 (/) RANGE 16,000 (/) METERS. Stamped inside a box is the text: THIS TRAINING AID WILL BE RETURNED (/) TO THE FIELD ARTILLERY SCHOOL (/) UPON COMPLETION OF THE SUB-COURSE (/) WITH WHICH ISSUED. Donor Ben Rau dated the instrument to 1965.

See also 1977.1141.01, 1977.1141.02, 1977.1141.05, 1977.1141.08, 1977.1141.09, 1977.1141.10, 1977.1141.11, 1977.1141.12, 1977.1141.18, 1977.1141.19, 1977.1141.20, 1977.1141.21, 1977.1141.22, 1977.1141.23, 1977.1141.24, 1977.1141.30, and 1977.1141.39.

Location

Currently not on view

date made

1965

maker

Felsenthal Instrument Co.

Physical Description

plastic (overall material)

Measurements

overall: .2 cm x 41 cm x 66.5 cm; 3/32 in x 16 5/32 in x 26 3/16 in

ID Number

1977.1141.03

accession number

1977.1141

catalog number

336387

Credit Line

Gift of Ben Wharton Rau and Margery Felsenthal Rau

subject

Mathematics

Protractor

Artillery

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Data Source

National Museum of American History