Object Details
- Description
- This 5-3/4" white plastic mechanical pencil is black at both ends and has a black eraser. It is marked: H HEARLIHY PUSHER PENCIL 0.5 mm. The metal pocket clip is marked: USA.
- Hearlihy & Co., a Springfield, Ohio, supplier of drafting instruments and developer of technology education curriculum modules founded by the donor's parents in 1969, distributed this pencil. It was received new. Hearlihy remains in operation as of 2013, but it is a division of Pitsco Education. Both companies have headquarters in Pittsburg, Kansas.
- Reference: "About Hearlihy," http://www.hearlihy.com/about/.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Credit Line
- Gift of Daniel A. Hearlihy
- 1987
- ID Number
- 1987.0589.06
- accession number
- 1987.0589
- catalog number
- 1987.0589.06
- Object Name
- pencil
- Physical Description
- plastic (overall material)
- steel (overall material)
- Measurements
- overall: 14.6 cm x 1.1 cm x .9 cm; 5 3/4 in x 7/16 in x 11/32 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
- Record ID
- nmah_904326
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746a7-37da-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa
