50 Degrees angle construction possible without protactor?

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Is 50 degrees angle construction possible without a protactor or a sine table ? Only using Compass and a ruler.

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No, it is not possible to construct a $50$ degree angle only with compass and straightedge.

Constructing 50 degrees is aeqivalent to constructing $10$ degrees (since $60$ degrees is constructable). A $10$ degreesangle has order $36 = 2^2 \cdot 3^3$.

Wikipedia states:

The only angles of finite order that may be constructed starting with two points are those whose order is either a power of two, or a product of a power of two and a set of distinct Fermat primes.