Sterling Plastics 542 T-Square
date: label: date made
content: 1950s
name: label: maker
content: Sterling Plastics
notes: label: Description
content: This 13" white plastic T-square is marked on the handle: STERLING – 542. It is also marked: MADE USA. The handle has a scale of 12 inches, divided to 1/16" and numbered by ones from 1 to 12, and a 30.5 centimeter scale, divided to millimeters, numbered by ones from 1 to 30, and marked: MM. A hole near the end of the handle permits hanging.
label: Description
content: George and Mary Staab operated Sterling Plastics in Mountainside, New Jersey, from 1938 through the late 1960s. The firm was a division of Borden Chemical Company in the 1970s and 1980s and was purchased by Sanford Corporation in 1988. See also MA.335327, 1988.0807.01, 1990.0689.01, and 1998.3104.01. Isaac Giacinto Molella, who worked as an electrical engineer for General Electric in the United States, North Africa, and Europe in the 1950s, previously owned this T-square.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: New Jersey, Mountainside
topic: label: Subject
content: Mathematics
label: Subject
content: Drafting, Engineering
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content: Medicine and Science: Mathematics
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content: Squares and Triangles
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content: Science & Mathematics
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: In Memory of Isaac Giacinto Molella
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1992.0433.02
label: accession number
content: 1992.0433
label: catalog number
content: 1992.0433.02
objectType: label: Object Name
content: t-square
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: plastic (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 33.2 cm x 15.8 cm x .6 cm; 13 1/16 in x 6 7/32 in x 1/4 in