French Curve or Irregular Curve
notes: label: Description
content: This flat wooden drawing instrument has curves on the outside and within an inner opening. There are numerous scratch marks and stains. A faint pencil mark reads: #30E (/) 40 ¢.
label: Description
content: The shape of the curve is similar to an instrument shown in a Reeves & Sons catalog from 1904.
label: Description
content: Reference:
label: Description
content: Maya Hambly, <I>Drawing Instruments</I>, London: RIBA Drawings Collection, 1982, p. 32.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
topic: label: Subject
content: Mathematics
label: Subject
content: Drawing Instruments
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content: Medicine and Science: Mathematics
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content: Curves
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content: Science & Mathematics
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Eunice L. Hoffman
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: MA.328399
label: accession number
content: 272517
label: catalog number
content: 328399
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Curve
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: wood (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: .1 cm x 25.5 cm x 8.3 cm; 1/32 in x 10 1/32 in x 3 9/32 in