Object Details
- Eugene Dietzgen Company
- Description
- This steel instrument has a needle point on one leg and a pen point on the other. A cross-hatched handle is attached to a ring, which in turn is attached to the legs. A screw goes through both legs, with the nut for setting the compass at a desired width outside the leg with the needle point. Additional thumbscrews allow adjusting of the needle and pen points.
- The instrument appears to be a Champion Bow Pen, model number 738C, advertised in 1926 by the Eugene Dietzgen Company of Chicago. The leg with the needle point has handwriting: P M LARSEN. Engraved on the other leg is the word EXCELLO and the Dietzgen logo.
- Reference: Catalog of Eugene Dietzgen Co., 12th ed. (Chicago, 1926), 59, 74.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Credit Line
- Gift of William J. Ellenberger
- ca 1926
- ID Number
- 1981.0933.22
- accession number
- 1981.0933
- catalog number
- 1981.0933.22
- Object Name
- bow pen
- compass, drawing
- Physical Description
- steel (overall material)
- nickel silver (overall material)
- Measurements
- overall: 11 cm x 4 cm x 1 cm; 4 11/32 in x 1 9/16 in x 13/32 in
- place made
- United States: Illinois, Chicago
- See more items in
- Medicine and Science: Mathematics
- Science & Mathematics
- Dividers and Compasses
- National Museum of American History
- Subject
- Mathematics
- Drawing Instruments
- Record ID
- nmah_904325
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746a7-37d9-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa
