Object Details
- Description
- This green plastic template has sixteen holes, with an underlying grid of lines. A scale of inches to tenths is along the top, while a scale of inches to eighths is along the bottom. The right edge has a scale of inches to sixths. A mark on the left side reads: STAEDTLER-MARS (/) MIL-STD 682A. It also reads: ADPS FLOW CHART SYMBOLS (/) TEMPLATE DRAFTING MX-3983/G. It also reads: 977 (/) 111DP. It reads at the top left: made in U.S.A.
- The template is in a plastic envelope which is clear on one side and white on the other.
- Staedtler is a German drawing instrument firm which began making pencils in 1835. It established an American subsidiary in New Jersey in 1953, and has subsequently moved that corporate office to California.
- The Staedtler-Mars logo on the bottom left corner of the template is that used by the company between 1973 and 2001.
- This template closely resembles one shown in a 1963 catalog of the California firm of RapiDesign, Inc. as its No. 545 MIL-STD 682A. The catalog price was $2.50, the size .03" x 8" x 3 1/2",
- Reference:
- RapiDesign, Inc., Drafting Templates Catalogue No. 70, Burbank, California, 1963, p. 16.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Credit Line
- Gift of Prof. Michael R. Williams
- 1973-1997
- ID Number
- 1997.3099.06
- nonaccession number
- 1997.3099
- catalog number
- 1997.3099.06
- Object Name
- Logic Template
- Physical Description
- plastic (overall material)
- Measurements
- overall: .1 cm x 23.3 cm x 9.7 cm; 1/32 in x 9 3/16 in x 3 13/16 in
- template only: .1 cm x 20.7 cm x 9 cm; 1/32 in x 8 5/32 in x 3 17/32 in
- place made
- United States
- See more items in
- Medicine and Science: Mathematics
- Flowcharting Templates
- Science & Mathematics
- National Museum of American History
- Subject
- Mathematics
- Record ID
- nmah_694228
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746a5-33ab-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa
