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Type | Model No. | Maker | Country | Construction Material | Date | Scale Length | Area of Use |
Polar | Ott & Coradi Type 8 | Ott & Coradi | Germany | Brass | 1874-1880 | N/A | General area measuring |
Notes: "From 1874 until 1880, Albert Ott and Gottlieb Coradi were partners in a business named Mathematical-Mechanical Institute Ott & Coradi, in Kempten, Bavaria. This planimeter would have been made during that time, before Coradi left to form his own company in Zurich, Switzerland in 1880. This is a Type 8, serial number 102."
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