Keuffel & Esser Dividing Engine for Linear Rules
date: label: date made
content: after 1900
name: label: maker
content: Keuffel & Esser Co.
notes: label: Description
content: This is one of two linear dividing engines presented to the Smithsonian in 1971 by Keuffel & Esser Company of Morristown, New Jersey. It is a precision machine for the graduation of the finely ruled lines on engineers’ flat scales. It was built by Keuffel & Esser after 1900 and was used in their Hoboken, New Jersey, factory through 1970.
label: Description
content: A mark on the base reads: 209. A mark on the switch box reads: UNIVERSAL (/) ENCLOSED SWITCH (/) UNIVERSAL (/) P1233.
label: Description
content: Parts stored separately include two weights, a long metal holder for objects being divided, five metal feet (painted green), and metal clamps that hold objects to the holder.
label: Description
content: Reference:
label: Description
content: Accession file 306012.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: New Jersey, Hoboken
topic: label: Subject
content: Ruling and Dividing Engines
label: Subject
content: Mathematics
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content: Medicine and Science: Mathematics
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Keuffel & Esser Company
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: MA.335266
label: catalog number
content: 335265
label: accession number
content: 306012
objectType: label: Object Name
content: dividing engine
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 141 cm x 104 cm x 88.5 cm; 55 1/2 in x 40 15/16 in x 34 27/32 in