Pantograph, Dietzgen Model 1875
date: label: date made
content: ca 1930
name: label: distributor
content: Eugene Dietzgen Company
label: maker
content: Eugene Dietzgen Company
notes: label: Description
content: This instrument has four hardwood bars with mahogany edges. The bars are 41 inches long. The fulcrum, joints with thumbscrews, and interchangeable tracer and pencil points are metal (no lead in the pencil point). Each bar has thirty-four holes drilled in it. These are spaced the same way on each bar, but not at equal intervals. The holes are labeled from 1 to 34 and also from 1 1/8 to 8. The device may be used to enlarge a drawing up to eight times the original size or reduce to as little as one eighth.
label: Description
content: A mark on one bar reads: EUGENE DIETZGEN CO. (/) CHICAGO-NEW YORK (/) SAN FRANCISCO-TORONTO-NEW ORLEANS.
label: Description
content: Reference:
label: Description
content: Eugene Dietzgen Co., <I>Catalog</I>, 1926, p. 192. This model is not shown in the catalog for 1905. In the catalogs for 1912 and 1921 it has catalog number 1875 1/2. It is shown in the 1938 catalog.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place distributed
content: United States: Illinois, Chicago
topic: label: Subject
content: Mathematics
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content: Medicine and Science: Mathematics
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content: Pantographs
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content: Science & Mathematics
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Transfer from U.S. Interstate Commerce Commission
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: MA.321783
label: catalog number
content: 321783
label: accession number
content: 246883
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Pantograph
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: metal (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: wood (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 5 cm x 100 cm x 47 cm; 1 31/32 in x 39 3/8 in x 18 1/2 in