Flowcharting Template, Staedtler-Mars ADPS Flow Chart Symbols
date: label: date made
content: 1973-1997
notes: label: Description
content: This green plastic template has sixteen holes, with an underlying grid of lines. A scale of inches to tenths is along the top, while a scale of inches to eighths is along the bottom. The right edge has a scale of inches to sixths. A mark on the left side reads: STAEDTLER-MARS (/) MIL-STD 682A. It also reads: ADPS FLOW CHART SYMBOLS (/) TEMPLATE DRAFTING MX-3983/G. It also reads: 977 (/) 111DP. It reads at the top left: made in U.S.A.
label: Description
content: The template is in a plastic envelope which is clear on one side and white on the other.
label: Description
content: Staedtler is a German drawing instrument firm which began making pencils in 1835. It established an American subsidiary in New Jersey in 1953, and has subsequently moved that corporate office to California.
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content: The Staedtler-Mars logo on the bottom left corner of the template is that used by the company between 1973 and 2001.
label: Description
content: This template closely resembles one shown in a 1963 catalog of the California firm of RapiDesign, Inc. as its No. 545 MIL-STD 682A. The catalog price was $2.50, the size .03" x 8" x 3 1/2",
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content: Reference:
label: Description
content: RapiDesign, Inc., <I>Drafting Templates Catalogue No. 70</I>, Burbank, California, 1963, p. 16.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States
topic: label: Subject
content: Mathematics
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content: Medicine and Science: Mathematics
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content: Flowcharting Templates
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content: Science & Mathematics
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Prof. Michael R. Williams
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1997.3099.06
label: nonaccession number
content: 1997.3099
label: catalog number
content: 1997.3099.06
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Logic Template
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: plastic (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: .1 cm x 23.3 cm x 9.7 cm; 1/32 in x 9 3/16 in x 3 13/16 in
label: Measurements
content: template only: .1 cm x 20.7 cm x 9 cm; 1/32 in x 8 5/32 in x 3 17/32 in