Hart Combination Protractor, Rule, and Square

Hart Combination Protractor, Rule, and Square

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Description
This paper semicircular protractor is divided by degrees and marked by tens from 10 to 170 degrees in both directions. The letter A is printed in the bottom left corner of the protractor, and B is printed in the bottom right corner of the protractor. Centered under the origin point of the protractor is printed the inventor's mark: Combination Protractor, Rule, and Square (/) W. W. Hart, University of Wisconsin.
A ruler along the top edge is divided to 1/8-inch and marked by ones from 0 to 5. A ruler along the bottom edge is divided to millimeterS and marked by ones from 0 to 12. The typeface of the inventor's mark is similar to that shown in Hart's textbooks published in the 1920s, such as Walter Wilson Hart, Junior High School Mathematics, vol. 1 (Boston: D. C. Heath & Co., 1921), vii, 131. See also MA.304722.06.
Location
Currently not on view
Object Name
protractor
date made
ca 1925
designer
Hart, Walter Wilson
place made
United States: Wisconsin, Madison
Physical Description
paper (overall material)
Measurements
overall:.1 cm x 13.5 cm x 8.2 cm; 1/32 in x 5 5/16 in x 3 7/32 in
ID Number
MA.304722.07
accession number
304722
catalog number
304722.07
Credit Line
Gift of Brown University Department of Mathematics
subject
Mathematics
Protractor
Education, High School
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Data Source
National Museum of American History
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Comments

I have one of these dated Sept 9, 1925. It was my dad's.

Donna Hartmann

Tue, 2022-02-01 13:29

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