Object Details
- Description
- This 12" 45°-45°-90° triangle with an open interior is made of three different woods, with two sections of lighter wood (0.5 cm wide) around two sections of darker wood (0.8 cm wide) around one section of reddish wood (1 cm wide). Three horizontal splines made from the lighter wood reinforce each corner. The back of the object has a sticker marked: 364.
- Neither Keuffel & Esser nor the Eugene Dietzgen Company advertised triangles like this one. James W. Queen of Philadelphia offered only two-toned triangles, of walnut or mahogany with a maple or ebony inlay. Additionally, the firm did not sell inlaid triangles in a 12-inch size. The previous owner of this instrument collected more than 1,200 hand tools and machine tools and displayed them at his family's building company in Baltimore, Md. This object was item number 364 in his collection.
- Reference: James W. Queen & Co., Priced and Illustrated Catalogue of Mathematical Instruments (Philadelphia, 1883), 51.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Credit Line
- The John R. Gerwig, Jr., Collection
- ca 1900
- ID Number
- 1977.1101.0087
- catalog number
- 1977.1101.0087
- accession number
- 1977.1101
- Object Name
- triangle
- Physical Description
- pearwood (overall material)
- mahogany (overall material)
- walnut (overall material)
- Measurements
- overall: 30.5 cm x 30.5 cm x .3 cm; 12 in x 12 in x 1/8 in
- See more items in
- Medicine and Science: Mathematics
- Squares and Triangles
- Science & Mathematics
- National Museum of American History
- Subject
- Mathematics
- Drawing Instruments
- Record ID
- nmah_904236
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746a7-6a66-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa
