- Subject
- Anthropometrics
- Item type
- Object
- Makers
- Francis Galton
- Provenance
- Transferred from the Department of Human Anatomy, Oxford, in 1937. Acquired for Oxford University (by Professor Arthur Thomson) from Francis Galton in 1895. Originally from Galton's Anthropometric Laboratory, London.
- Object type
- Anthropometric apparatus
- Dimensions
- Height: 108mm Width: 56mm Depth: 25mm Weight: 65g
- Inventory No
- 14649
- Accession Number
- 1937-19
Description
Unsigned and undated. Two adjustable brass and rubber stoppers mounted in two copper alloy bars, one of the stoppers is attached by a screw the other by a wire looped at the top so it can move up and down in the bars. A 1875 penny has been inserted into one of the stoppers, cutting it in half, it has been secured with glue.
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