Object Details
- Description
- This 6" gray plastic ballpoint click pen has eleven round holes on the side that reveal a rotating multiplication table. The first hole shows a number between 1 and 10. The other holes show multiples of that number from 1 to 10. Clicking the pen rotates the table. The pen's metal pocket clip is marked: MOD (/) DEP (/) COMPUTER. This pen was found in the Museum collections in the 1980s.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- late 20th century
- ID Number
- 1993.3058.02
- catalog number
- 1993.3058.02
- nonaccession number
- 1993.3058
- Object Name
- pen with tables
- pen
- Physical Description
- plastic (overall material)
- metal (overall material)
- Measurements
- overall: 15.1 cm x 1.5 cm x 1.2 cm; 5 15/16 in x 19/32 in x 15/32 in
- place made
- United States
- See more items in
- Medicine and Science: Mathematics
- Pens and Pencils
- Science & Mathematics
- National Museum of American History
- Subject
- Mathematics
- writing implements
- Table, Mathematical
- Record ID
- nmah_904316
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746a7-4c39-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa
