Object Details
- Description
- This 19" wooden T-square has a curved top piece attached to the handle by two steel screws. The back of the top piece has a ridge for positioning against a table. A hole at the end of the handle is for hanging the instrument. It has no markings. The dating of other objects from this donor suggests this object was made about 1900. Compare to MA.328396 and MA.328398.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Credit Line
- Gift of Eunice L. Hoffman
- ca 1900
- ID Number
- MA.328397
- accession number
- 272517
- catalog number
- 328397
- Object Name
- t-square
- Physical Description
- steel (overall material)
- wood (overall material)
- Measurements
- overall: 48.4 cm x 20.6 cm x .6 cm; 19 1/16 in x 8 1/8 in x 1/4 in
- See more items in
- Medicine and Science: Mathematics
- Squares and Triangles
- Science & Mathematics
- National Museum of American History
- Subject
- Mathematics
- Drawing Instruments
- Drafting, Engineering
- Record ID
- nmah_904454
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746a7-6ed8-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa
