Record Bow Compass
date: label: date made
content: mid 20th century
notes: label: Description
content: This steel instrument has a pen point on one leg. Two screws adjust the width of the pen point and allow it to be removed. The needle point and its screw are missing from the other leg. A thumbscrew for adjusting the width of the instrument is outside the leg with the pen point. A cylindrical ridged handle is directly attached to a ring inserted into the legs. That leg is marked: R<u>ECORD</u>. The object was received with several other instruments in a wooden box, 1984.1071.13.
label: Description
content: The mark may refer to the British brand of woodworking tools. The Record factory operated in Sheffield, England, from 1909 until about 2002, when its parent company was acquired by Newell Rubbermaid. The donor, Sebastian J. Tralongo (1928–2007), served in the U.S. Navy during World War II and then worked for the Vitro Corporation in Rockville, Md., for 35 years. He patented a device for signaling from deeply submerged submarines and assigned the rights to Vitro.
label: Description
content: References: "Tralongo, Sebastian James 'Subby'," <i>Hartford Courant</i>, May 26, 2007; Sebastian J. Tralongo, "Submarine Signal Device" (U.S. Patent 2,989,024 issued June 20, 1961); David Lynch, "Record Hand Planes: A History," http://www.recordhandplanes.com/history.html.
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: Science & Mathematics
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content: Dividers and Compasses
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Sebastian J. Tralongo
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1984.1071.10
label: accession number
content: 1984.1071
label: catalog number
content: 1984.1071.10
objectType: label: Object Name
content: compass, drawing
label: Object Name
content: compass
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: steel (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 10.5 cm x 3.2 cm x 1 cm; 4 1/8 in x 1 1/4 in x 13/32 in