Vemco D-171 Pocket Architect's Scale
date: label: date made
content: ca 1963
name: label: maker
content: Vemco Corporation
notes: label: Description
content: 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.
label: Description
content: 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.
label: Description
content: Reference: <i>Vemco Drafting Products Corporation</i>, http://www.vemcocorp.com/.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: California, Pasadena
topic: label: Subject
content: Mathematics
label: Subject
content: Drafting, Engineering
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content: Medicine and Science: Mathematics
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content: Science & Mathematics
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content: Scale Rules
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of George A. Norton
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1990.0689.02
label: accession number
content: 1990.0689
label: catalog number
content: 1990.0689.02
objectType: label: Object Name
content: rule
label: Object Name
content: scale rule
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: suede (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: metal (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: .3 cm x 28.3 cm x 3.8 cm; 1/8 in x 11 5/32 in x 1 1/2 in