Flemish Ell
date: label: date made
content: ca 1757
notes: label: Description
content: This square, tapering wooden rule has a brass tip around the narrow end. Three sides are finely carved with fruit and vines, possibly oranges and pineapples. The fourth side is marked with inlaid brass dots: ANNO IIV DB 1757 NAVW. Inlaid brass bars provide measuring marks that are 1, 3.8, 6, 10.2, 18.7, 26, and 53 cm from the wide end. The spacing of the marks is similar to those on 318246. The overall length of the rule is 70 cm (27-1/2"), which is close to the usual length for a Flemish ell (68.6 cm, 27").
label: Description
content: Reference: Herbert Arthur Klein, <i>The Science of Measurement: A Historical Survey</i> (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1974), 57.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: Flanders
topic: label: Subject
content: Mathematics
label: Subject
content: Rule, Measuring
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content: Medicine and Science: Mathematics
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content: Science & Mathematics
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content: Scale Rules
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content: Measuring & Mapping
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: MA.319778
label: accession number
content: 239771
label: catalog number
content: 319778
objectType: label: Object Name
content: rule
label: Object Name
content: scale rule
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: brass (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: wood (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 2.5 cm x 70 cm x 2.6 cm; 31/32 in x 27 9/16 in x 1 1/32 in