Keuffel & Esser 1453P Chain Scale
date: label: date made
content: ca 1940
name: label: maker
content: Keuffel & Esser Co.
notes: label: Description
content: This 12" boxwood rule is beveled along both long edges and faced with white celluloid. One edge is divided to 1/16" and numbered by ones from 0 to 12. The other edge is on the back of the rule and is divided to 1/32", numbered by ones from 0 to 12. The front of the rule is marked: KEUFFEL & ESSER C<u>o</u> (/) N.Y. It is also marked: PARAGON. It also has K&E's eagle logo with the mark: TRADEMARK. It is also marked: RHW.
label: Description
content: Keuffel & Esser added model 1453 to its Paragon line in 1936, when the model number was 1453PR and the price was $1.85. The model number was still 1453PR by 1954. According to the donor, the instrument was used by her husband, the electrical engineer Robert H. Wieler (1923–1993).
label: Description
content: References: <i>Catalogue and Price List of Keuffel & Esser Co.</i>, 38th ed. (New York, 1936), 214; <i>Catalogue and Price List of Keuffel & Esser Co.</i>, 42nd ed. (New York, 1954), 184.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: New York, New York City
topic: label: Subject
content: Mathematics
label: Subject
content: Drafting, Engineering
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content: Medicine and Science: Mathematics
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content: Science & Mathematics
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content: Scale Rules
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Norma P. Wieler
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1998.0032.06
label: catalog number
content: 1998.0032.06
label: accession number
content: 1998.0032
objectType: label: Object Name
content: scale rule
label: Object Name
content: rule
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: boxwood (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: plastic (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: .4 cm x 31.8 cm x 3.5 cm; 5/32 in x 12 17/32 in x 1 3/8 in