MUSEUM OBJECT
Description:
Case: 6.875 x 3 x 1.125
Ruler: 6 with .0625 decoration
Unknown 1: 9.125 (stretched)
Protractor: 1.8125 x 3.5625
Unknown 2: 3.3125
Unknown 3: 4.1875
Unknown 4: 3.5625
Unknown 5: 3.25
Unknown 6: 2.4375
Unknown 7: 5.8125
Abstract:
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Nine instruments housed in original wooden case covered in leather or sharkskin. The top of the case is hinged at one side, and held shut by a snap fastening. Inside the top is a printed label: "McAllister & Co./48 Chestnut Street/Philadelphia. Have constantly for sale, cases of/Mathematical Instruments/For Schools, Wholesale & Retail/Dividers, Gunter's Scales, Parallel Rules, Brass and Ivory Protractors, etc. separate from the case." Around the wall of the top is pasted a strip of paper, bearing handwritten inscriptions - "$3 1/4 /N60K/n fli/gfi DW Mr/ No 160-9/str purchd March 18 1847/of McAllister." Contains nine drafting instruments: divider, compass with five attachments, ivory scale, parallel rule, and scaled semicircle.
BOOK
Title:
Some Pennsylvania pioneers in agricultural science
Creators:
Mairs, Thomas I. (Thomas Isaiah), b. 1871 | State college, Pennsylvania Agricultural experiment station.
Publication:
State College, Pa, [c1928]
Notes:
Pennsylvania state college. College series, no. 2. "Sketches ... concerning some of the men who laid the foundation of the School of agriculture and the Agricultural experiment station of the Pennsylvania state college."--Pref.
Extent:
185 p. : front., ports. ; 19 cm.
Subjects:
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Armsby, Henry Prentiss, -- 1853-1921 -- Biography |
Buckhout, W. A. -- (William Armstrong), -- 1846-1912 -- Biography |
Butz, George C., -- 1863-1907 -- Biography |
Frear, William, -- 1860-1922 -- Biography |
Hamilton, John, -- 1843-1921 -- Biography |
Jordan, Whitman H. -- (Whitman Howard), -- 1851-1931 -- Biography |
Patterson, William Calvin, -- 1838-1909 -- Biography |
Waring, William Griffith, -- 1816-1906 -- Biography |
Watts, Frederick, -- 1801-1889 -- Biography |
McAllister, Hugh Nelson, -- 1808-1873 -- Biography |
Thompson, Moses, -- 1810-1891 -- Biography |
Pennsylvania State College. -- School of Agriculture |
Pennsylvania State College. -- Agricultural Experiment Station