Object Details
- Sterling Plastics
- Description
- This 13" white plastic T-square is marked on the handle: STERLING – 542. It is also marked: MADE USA. The handle has a scale of 12 inches, divided to 1/16" and numbered by ones from 1 to 12, and a 30.5 centimeter scale, divided to millimeters, numbered by ones from 1 to 30, and marked: MM. A hole near the end of the handle permits hanging.
- George and Mary Staab operated Sterling Plastics in Mountainside, New Jersey, from 1938 through the late 1960s. The firm was a division of Borden Chemical Company in the 1970s and 1980s and was purchased by Sanford Corporation in 1988. See also MA.335327, 1988.0807.01, 1990.0689.01, and 1998.3104.01. Isaac Giacinto Molella, who worked as an electrical engineer for General Electric in the United States, North Africa, and Europe in the 1950s, previously owned this T-square.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Credit Line
- In Memory of Isaac Giacinto Molella
- 1950s
- ID Number
- 1992.0433.02
- accession number
- 1992.0433
- catalog number
- 1992.0433.02
- Object Name
- t-square
- Physical Description
- plastic (overall material)
- Measurements
- overall: 33.2 cm x 15.8 cm x .6 cm; 13 1/16 in x 6 7/32 in x 1/4 in
- place made
- United States: New Jersey, Mountainside
- See more items in
- Medicine and Science: Mathematics
- Squares and Triangles
- Science & Mathematics
- National Museum of American History
- Subject
- Mathematics
- Drafting, Engineering
- Record ID
- nmah_904453
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746a7-6ed7-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa
