Dietzgen 1288-3 Set of Drawing Instruments
date: label: date made
content: ca 1980
name: label: distributor
content: Eugene Dietzgen Company
notes: label: Description
content: A clear plastic envelope with two blue snaps and marked DIETZGEN contains a black hard plastic case that fastens with two sliding bars. The top of the case is marked: DIETZGEN (/) STELLAR (/) 1288-3 (/) MADE IN GERMANY. Red and yellow foam inside the lid has come unglued. The instrument tray is lined with red velvet. A brochure demonstrating the features of this set and a yellow cleaning cloth lie on top of the tray. The set includes:
label: Description
content: 1) 6" chromium-plated fixed-leg needle-point dividers. Black plastic covers the joint and is marked on one side: DIETZGEN. The other side is marked: GERMANY.
label: Description
content: 2) 4-1/2" chromium-plated bow pencil.
label: Description
content: 3) 6-1/2" chromium-plated bow pencil.
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content: 4) 1-3/8" black plastic cylindrical case for leads, containing three leads, three needle points, and one black plastic pen nib.
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content: The joint tightener is missing. A slot in the case holds a piece of green paper marked: SPACE FOR DIETZGEN DRAFTING PENCIL. According to the brochure, this model number was normally sold without the pencil. These instruments were part of the Stellar product line.
label: Description
content: The donor, Ed Severino, began his career in the 1940s as an engineer with General Electric Company in Schenectady, N.Y. After eight years, he went to teach mathematics and science at Mont [<i>sic</i>] Pleasant High School in Schenectady, where he became head of the Technical Department. According to the donor, this set of drawing instruments is of the type trainees used in the late 1970s and early 1980s, when Severino was director of his high school's General Electric Apprentice Training Educational Program.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place distributed
content: United States: Illinois, Chicago
label: place made
content: Germany
topic: label: Subject
content: Education
label: Subject
content: Mathematics
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content: Medicine and Science: Mathematics
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content: Science & Mathematics
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content: Drawing Instruments
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Ed Severino
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2006.0230.02
label: accession number
content: 2006.0230
label: catalog number
content: 2006.0230.02
objectType: label: Object Name
content: drawing instruments, set of
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: plastic (overall material)
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content: fabric (overall material)
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content: metal (overall material)
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content: paper (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 1.5 cm x 27.6 cm x 14.6 cm; 19/32 in x 10 7/8 in x 5 3/4 in