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Zero Setting Compensating Planimeter
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Object statement
Calculator, analog, 'Zero Setting Compensating Planimeter', maker unknown, Muraki, Japan, date unknown
Production Notes include information about the design, manufacture and marketing of an object. Production notes
The calculator was made in Muraki, Japan.
History Notes include facts about what has happened to an object since manufacture. This could include who owned it and how it was used (provenance). It may also describe any cultural meanings with which it may have become associated. History notes
The planimeter was used by Rheem to determine strain energy from stress-strain diagrams.

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Description
Calculator, analog, 'Zero Setting Compensating Planimeter', maker unknown, Muraki, Japan, date unknown

Analog device used for finding areas under curves marked on paper. A black plastic and metal box holds a pole weight, a small Allen key, three silver-coloured metal tools and a tracer arm. The planimeter also comes with a white cardboard box base, an unidentified silver-coloured bracket and four copies of a constant chart.

Made: Muraki, Japan


Used: Rheem Australia; Australia
The Registration Number of an object is a unique identifying number applied by the museum at the point of acquisition. Current numbering format comprises the year of acquisition, followed by a sequential number. For example, '2007/45' is the Registration Number that represents the 45th acquisition in the year 2007. Registration number
86/393

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Acquisition credit line
Gift of Rheem Australia, 1986
Subjects
+ Measurement
+ Mathematics
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{{cite web |url=http://from.ph/64852 |title=Zero Setting Compensating Planimeter |author=Powerhouse Museum |accessdate=25 May 2013 |publisher=Powerhouse Museum, Australia}}


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