Object Details
- Soellner
- Description
- This 4-3/4" steel, German silver, and metal drawing pen is marked on the tightening screw: SOELLNER (/) GERMANY. Soellner was a 20th-century German manufacturer of drawing instruments.
- William J. Ellenberger (1908–2008), who owned this pen, studied electrical and mechanical engineering at The George Washington University between 1925 and 1934. He then worked for the Potomac Electric Power Company and the National Bureau of Standards. During World War II, he served in the U.S. Army Signal Corps. He was a civilian construction management engineer for the army from 1954 to 1968, when he became a private consultant.
- Reference: "The GW Engineering Hall of Fame 2006 Inductees," http://www.weas.gwu.edu/ifaf/hall_of_fame_inductees_2006.php.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Credit Line
- Gift of William J. Ellenberger
- ca 1900
- ID Number
- 1981.0933.24
- accession number
- 1981.0933
- catalog number
- 1981.0933.24
- Object Name
- pen
- Physical Description
- steel (overall material)
- metal (overall material)
- german silver (overall material)
- Measurements
- overall: 1 cm x 12 cm x 1 cm; 13/32 in x 4 23/32 in x 13/32 in
- place made
- Germany
- See more items in
- Medicine and Science: Mathematics
- Pens and Pencils
- Science & Mathematics
- National Museum of American History
- Subject
- Mathematics
- Drawing Instruments
- Drafting, Engineering
- Record ID
- nmah_904297
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746b3-1647-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa
