Mechanical Planimeter 2024

Engineers and cartographers normally use planimeters to find the area of an irregular shape, such as the area of a city. Medical researchers also used this small instrument to measure biologic phenomena. Jakob Amsler, professor of mathematics at the University of Sscaffen hausen in Switzerland developed this instrument in 1854. It consists of two arms: one affixed to the page using a pin, the other 2024 containing a stylus used to trace around the unknown area. As the region is traced, a small wheel rotates against the paper, recording the area on a dial. Manufactured & sold by ANCIENT HUB