Skip to content
History of Science Museum
Hire the Museum for filming

Anthropometric Instrument or Component, c.1884

Inventory Number 14672

Acknowledgement: © History of Science Museum, University of Oxford, inv.14672

Item type
Object
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.
Physical material
Metal
Wire
Glue
Solder
Object type
Anthropometric apparatus
Dimensions
Height: 155mm Width: 52mm Depth: 28mm Weight: 21g
Inventory No
14672
Accession Number
1937-19

Description

Metal wire cradle with a twisted loop at the top for a handle, and two coins attached by wire to the lower bar the coins are set at angles to each other, the coins are attached separately to two lopped wires and fitted so that they can freely swing on the cradle. One coins is 1865 on the other the date is obscured.

Related Items

More related items