Object Details
- Safe-T Products, Inc.
- Description
- Along its top edge, this 9-1/2" transparent orange plastic rectangular instrument has a scale of inches divided to 1/16" for four inches and to 1/10" for four inches and numbered by ones from 1 to 8. The bottom edge has a centimeter scale divided to millimeters and numbered by ones from 0 to 20. Two rectangular indentations running the length of the instrument have holes drilled every 1/2-inch for drawing vertical lines. The holes are numbered from 3-1/2" to 0" to 3-1/2".
- A lip underneath the instrument's left end serves as a guide rail when the T-square is placed on the edge of a clipboard or drawing board. Unlike a conventional T-square, this object has no crosspiece. This was supposed to make it easier to use. A hole at the right end permits hanging or placement in a three-ring binder. The device is marked: VIEW THRUTM; SAFE-T T-SQUARE®; SAFE-T PLASTIC®. It is also marked: Pat. (/) Pend. This patent was not identified.
- Safe-T Products, Inc., of La Grange, Ill., was established in 1992 to sell drawing instruments that were safe for schoolchildren. In 1998 and 2000, Safe-T sold model 41516 for $1.95. In 2006, the company became a subsidiary of A. Daigger & Company and its name changed to Classroom Products Warehouse.
- References: accession file; SAFE-T Products, Inc., Innovative Safe Drawing and Measuring Instruments, about 1998; Safe-T/Basics by Extra Measures, Inc., about 2000.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Credit Line
- Gift of Extra Measures, Inc.
- 2000
- ID Number
- 2000.0160.10
- accession number
- 2000.0160
- catalog number
- 2000.0160.10
- Object Name
- t-square
- Physical Description
- plastic (overall material)
- Measurements
- overall: 24.1 cm x 5 cm x .3 cm; 9 1/2 in x 1 31/32 in x 1/8 in
- place made
- United States: Illinois, La Grange
- See more items in
- Medicine and Science: Mathematics
- Squares and Triangles
- Science & Mathematics
- National Museum of American History
- Subject
- Mathematics
- Education
- Drawing Instruments
- Record ID
- nmah_904398
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746a7-3f52-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa
