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Anthropometric Instrument or Component, c.1884

Inventory Number 14673

Acknowledgement: © History of Science Museum, University of Oxford, inv.14673

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
Object type
Anthropometric apparatus
Dimensions
Height: 221mm Width: 78mm Depth: 41mm Weight: 13g
Inventory No
14673
Accession Number
1937-19

Description

Metal cross shaped component made of four metal wires, one end is a loop handle the other is an 1862 one penny bound in the metal wire.

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