SALMOIRAGHI Mechanical Tachometer Portable For Workshop Antique 1880

A refined precision tool of the Filotechnics ing. A. Salmoiraghi - Milan, kept in its elegant original box covered in purple velvet.

Not a simple accessory, but a witness of Italian industrial history, when mechanical engineering was art and science.

🔧 Technical data sheet

• ⚙️ Type: Portable mechanical speedometer (in contact)

• ↔ total length: 17 cm (🇺🇸 6.69 in)

• 📏 Height with lever: 7 cm (🇺🇸 2.75 in)

• Ø wheel diameter: 4 cm (🇺🇸 1.57 in)

• 🔄 Ranking dial: scale up to 9000 rpm

• 🪙 Hit: in Bacchelite/Turned Ebonite

• 📦 custody: vintage original, interior in shaped purple velvet

• ⏳ era: late XIX - early 20th century (about 1880–1910)

• 🔍 🔍 Conservative state: as from a photo, complete and well preserved

📖 An era of ink and genius Filotechnics ing. Salmoiraghi, founded in 1865 in Milan by Colonel Ignazio Porro and subsequently directed by Angelo Salmoiraghi, became one of the most prestigious realities in Europe in the production of instruments of measuring, topography, optics and technical design.

This mechanical speedometer represents the perfect fusion between precision craftsmanship and industrial progress: it was used in the workshops to verify the rotation speed of trees and engines, anticipating modern digital tools.

Today it is not only a technical object, but a museum collector's piece, capable of telling the trust in the mechanics and science of industrial Italy of the late nineteenth century.

💡 Ideal for collectors of scientific tools, technique museums, enthusiasts of industrial history.

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