Soellner Drawing Pen
date: label: date made
content: ca 1900
name: label: maker
content: Soellner
notes: label: Description
content: This 4-3/4" steel, German silver, and metal drawing pen is marked on the tightening screw: SOELLNER (/) GERMANY. Soellner was a 20th-century German manufacturer of drawing instruments.
label: Description
content: William J. Ellenberger (1908–2008), who owned this pen, studied electrical and mechanical engineering at The George Washington University between 1925 and 1934. He then worked for the Potomac Electric Power Company and the National Bureau of Standards. During World War II, he served in the U.S. Army Signal Corps. He was a civilian construction management engineer for the army from 1954 to 1968, when he became a private consultant.
label: Description
content: Reference: "The GW Engineering Hall of Fame 2006 Inductees," http://www.weas.gwu.edu/ifaf/hall_of_fame_inductees_2006.php.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: Germany
topic: label: Subject
content: Mathematics
label: Subject
content: Drawing Instruments
label: Subject
content: Drafting, Engineering
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content: Medicine and Science: Mathematics
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content: Pens and Pencils
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content: Science & Mathematics
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: 1981.0933.24
label: accession number
content: 1981.0933
label: catalog number
content: 1981.0933.24
objectType: label: Object Name
content: pen
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: steel (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: metal (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: german silver (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 1 cm x 12 cm x 1 cm; 13/32 in x 4 23/32 in x 13/32 in