Object Details
maker
Vemco Corporation
Description
This six-inch metal rule has a white coating. One side has scales dividing the inch into 40 parts, numbered in both directions by twos from 0 to 40, and into 10 parts, numbered in both directions by ones from 0 to 6. This side is marked: VEMCO PASADENA, CALIF. D-171. The other side has scales dividing the inch into 50 parts, numbered in both directions by twos from 0 to 30, and into 30 parts, numbered in both directions by twos from 0 to 18. A tan suede sleeve has a round white sticker marked: 8-63 (/) $2.45 (/) Four-Bevel.
Francis E. Vaughan and Floyd Eubanks founded V & E Manufacturing, or Vemco Corporation, in Pasadena, Calif., in 1939 to make high-quality drafting instruments. Eubanks patented eight drafting machines and drawing instruments in the early 1940s.
Reference: Vemco Drafting Products Corporation, http://www.vemcocorp.com/.
Location
Currently not on view
Credit Line
Gift of George A. Norton
date made
ca 1963
ID Number
1990.0689.02
accession number
1990.0689
catalog number
1990.0689.02
Object Name
rule
scale rule
Physical Description
suede (overall material)
metal (overall material)
Measurements
overall: .3 cm x 28.3 cm x 3.8 cm; 1/8 in x 11 5/32 in x 1 1/2 in
place made
United States: California, Pasadena
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Data Source
National Museum of American History
Subject
Mathematics
Drafting, Engineering
Link to Original Record
Record ID
nmah_904795