Dietzgen 736B Bow Compass with Pencil Point
date: label: date made
content: ca 1926
name: label: maker
content: Eugene Dietzgen Company
notes: label: Description
content: This steel and German silver instrument has a needle point on one leg and a holder for a pencil lead on the other. The handle has vertical ridges above a single line of raised metal dots. The width of the compass is adjusted with a pin through the legs and a wheel around the pin between the legs. Additional thumbscrews allow adjusting of the needle and pencil points. The instrument appears to be a Federal Bow Pencil, model number 736B, advertised in 1926 by the Eugene Dietzgen Company of Chicago.
label: Description
content: Reference: <i>Catalog of Eugene Dietzgen Co.</i>, 12th ed. (Chicago, 1926), 60, 74.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Illinois, Chicago
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 William J. Ellenberger
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1981.0933.21
label: accession number
content: 1981.0933
label: catalog number
content: 1981.0933.21
objectType: label: Object Name
content: bow pencil
label: Object Name
content: compass, drawing
label: Other Terms
content: bow pencil; Steelspring
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: lead (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: german silver (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: steel (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 9.3 cm x 2 cm x 1.5 cm; 3 21/32 in x 25/32 in x 19/32 in