Object Details
- Makeba
- Description
- This instrument combines a mechanical pencil and a slide rule. The pencil has a metal body surrounding a black plastic tube, which is pulled out to move the scales. Four white plastic logarithmic scales are glued to the pencil. One pair of scales is divided logarithmically from 1 to 100 (as A and B scales), and the other pair is divided logarithmically from 1 to 10 (as C and D scales).
- The black plastic tube (underneath one of the A/B scales) is marked: MAKEBA-KOMBINATOR. The black plastic tube surrounds a metal tube and spring, which connect a metal tip and a plastic pusher. A pencil lead is inside the metal tube. A sliding plastic indicator is in a metal frame with a ridged edge for gripping.
- Makeba was established in Bautzen, Germany, in 1922. By the 1950s, it was a sub-brand of Markant, an East German company that copied designs for Pelikan fountain pens as late as the 1970s.
- Reference: Der neue Makeba-Kombinator: Fallstift mit Rechenschieber (Bautzen, East Germany: VEB Füllhalterfabrik Makeba, 1957). According to Worldcat, a copy of this publication is in the Deutsche Nationalbibliothek in Leipzig. See http://d-nb.info/574971327.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Credit Line
- Gift of L. Marton
- ca 1957
- ID Number
- 1977.1120.01
- catalog number
- 336447
- accession number
- 1977.1120
- Object Name
- slide rule & pencil
- Physical Description
- plastic (overall material)
- metal (inside material)
- graphite (inside material)
- Measurements
- overall: 1.5 cm x 17.6 cm x 1.5 cm; 19/32 in x 6 15/16 in x 19/32 in
- place made
- Germany: Saxony, Bautzen
- See more items in
- Medicine and Science: Mathematics
- Science & Mathematics
- Slide Rules
- National Museum of American History
- Subject
- Mathematics
- Rule, Calculating
- writing implements
- Novelty
- Record ID
- nmah_1215018
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746a9-a350-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa
