Object Details
distributor
Eugene Dietzgen Company
maker
Eugene Dietzgen Company
Description
This instrument has four hardwood bars with mahogany edges. The bars are 41 inches long. The fulcrum, joints with thumbscrews, and interchangeable tracer and pencil points are metal (no lead in the pencil point). Each bar has thirty-four holes drilled in it. These are spaced the same way on each bar, but not at equal intervals. The holes are labeled from 1 to 34 and also from 1 1/8 to 8. The device may be used to enlarge a drawing up to eight times the original size or reduce to as little as one eighth.
A mark on one bar reads: EUGENE DIETZGEN CO. (/) CHICAGO-NEW YORK (/) SAN FRANCISCO-TORONTO-NEW ORLEANS.
Reference:
Eugene Dietzgen Co., Catalog, 1926, p. 192. This model is not shown in the catalog for 1905. In the catalogs for 1912 and 1921 it has catalog number 1875 1/2. It is shown in the 1938 catalog.
Location
Currently not on view
Credit Line
Transfer from U.S. Interstate Commerce Commission
date made
ca 1930
ID Number
MA.321783
catalog number
321783
accession number
246883
Object Name
Pantograph
Physical Description
metal (overall material)
wood (overall material)
Measurements
overall: 5 cm x 100 cm x 47 cm; 1 31/32 in x 39 3/8 in x 18 1/2 in
place distributed
United States: Illinois, Chicago
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Medicine and Science: Mathematics
Pantographs
Science & Mathematics
Data Source
National Museum of American History
Subject
Mathematics
Link to Original Record
Record ID
nmah_690235