Object Details
- author
- Kidjel, Maurice
- Young, Kenneth W. K.
- Description
- The citation information for this spiral-bound book is: Maurice Kidjel, The Kidjel Ratio System 5.333/1 (Honolulu, 1962). It was received with an example of Kidjel's Cali-Pro proportional dividers (MA.333876), and a warranty card for the Cali-Pro is inside the front cover of the book. After a biographical note, Kidjel provided supposed solutions to the three classic construction problems of Greek antiquity (trisecting the angle, squaring the circle, and doubling the cube).
- Although the Cali-Pro was not needed for these attempted solutions, in part two of the book Kidjel explained how to make these and other, more standard, solutions with the device. Next, he discussed how his ratio applied to the human body. Finally, he explained how to use the Cali-Pro in various fields of industrial design, such as architecture and publishing. A brief biography of Kidjel's business partner, Kenneth W. K. Young, is found inside the back cover. The back cover reproduces a portion of then-U.S. Representative Daniel Inouye's remarks about the Kidjel ratio system, read into the Congressional Record of the 86th Congress.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Credit Line
- Transfer from U.S. Department of the Treasury, Internal Revenue Service, Publications Department
- 1962
- ID Number
- MA.304213.03
- accession number
- 304213
- catalog number
- 304213.03
- Object Name
- book
- Physical Description
- paper (overall material)
- plastic (overall material)
- Measurements
- overall: 23.3 cm x 16 cm; 9 3/16 in x 6 5/16 in
- See more items in
- Medicine and Science: Mathematics
- Science & Mathematics
- Dividers and Compasses
- National Museum of American History
- Subject
- Mathematics
- Drawing Instruments
- Mathematical Cranks
- Record ID
- nmah_904538
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746a7-2e4b-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa
