Rapidesign No. 710 Speedi-Plan Drawing Template
date: label: date made
content: ca 1964
name: label: maker
content: RapiDesign, Inc.
notes: label: Description
content: This clear plastic template has holes in the shape of various pieces of office furniture as well as measuring scales for designing offices. Shapes are drawn to a scale of ¼” to a foot. This particular example was used to plan the layout of offices in the Mechanical and Civil Engineering collections of the Museum of History and Technology (now the National Museum of American History) when it first opened. A mark on the object reads: RAPIDESIGN (/) NO 710 (/) OFFICE PLAN (/) TEMPLATE.
label: Description
content: A brown paper sleeve holds the instrument.
label: Description
content: Versions of this RapiDesign template sold as early as 1950 and remained on sale at least as late as 2016. In 1963, the instrument cost $1.60.
label: Description
content: References:
label: Description
content: RapiDesign, Inc., <I>Drafting Templates Catalogue No. 50</I>, Glendale, California, 1950.
label: Description
content: RapiDesign, Inc., <I>Drafting Templates Catalogue No. 70</I>, Burbank, California, 1963, p. 11.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: California, Burbank
label: place used
content: United States: District of Columbia, Washington
topic: label: Subject
content: Mathematics
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content: Medicine and Science: Mathematics
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content: Drawing Templates
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content: Science & Mathematics
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1985.3088.05
label: nonaccession number
content: 1985.3088
label: catalog number
content: 1985.3088.05
objectType: label: Object Name
content: template
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: paper (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: plastic (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: .1 cm x 21.6 cm x 13.5 cm; 1/32 in x 8 1/2 in x 5 5/16 in