Ship Curve, Possibly by Blue and White Company
date: label: date made
content: ca 1950-1975
notes: label: Description
content: This plastic drawing curve is rounded at the bottom and forked at the top. A mark stamped near the bottom reads: EXACT (/) CELLULOID. The EXACT is in quotation marks, with the first quotation mark a subscript, as is common in German. A mark stamped at the center shows a triangle, a T-square and a drawing template. Text on the template reads in part: BLUE.
label: Description
content: The donor, Sebastian J. Tralongo (1928–2007), served in the U.S. Navy during World War II and then worked for the Vitro Corporation in Rockville, Md., for 35 years. He patented a device for signaling from deeply submerged submarines. The object was received at the Smithsonian in 1980. Another object received from Tralango was a Standardgraph template, and sold by the Blue and White Company. The German firm of Standardgraph Filler and Fiebig in the Bavarian town of Geretsried applied for trademark for the term Standardgraph for curved rules in 1971 and received it in 1974. Blue and White are the colors of Bavaria.
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content: References:
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content: Accession file
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content: “Standardgraph,” TESS, U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, accessed August 1, 2016.
label: Description
content: "Tralongo, Sebastian James 'Subby'," <i>Hartford Courant</i>, May 26, 2007.
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content: Sebastian J. Tralongo, "Submarine Signal Device" (U.S. Patent 2,989,024 issued June 20, 1961).
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content: "Vitro Corp. – Company Profile," http://www.referenceforbusiness.com/history2/25/VitroCorp.html.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: Germany
topic: label: Subject
content: Mathematics
label: Subject
content: Drawing Instruments
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content: Medicine and Science: Mathematics
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content: Curves
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content: Science & Mathematics
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Sebastian J. Tralongo
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1984.1071.06
label: accession number
content: 1984.1071
label: catalog number
content: 1984.1071.06
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Curve
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: celluloid (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: .2 cm x 37 cm x 14.7 cm; 3/32 in x 14 9/16 in x 5 25/32 in