Object Details
- Vemco Corporation
- Description
- This six-inch metal rule has a white coating. One side has scales dividing the inch into 40 parts, numbered in both directions by twos from 0 to 40, and into 10 parts, numbered in both directions by ones from 0 to 6. This side is marked: VEMCO PASADENA, CALIF. D-171. The other side has scales dividing the inch into 50 parts, numbered in both directions by twos from 0 to 30, and into 30 parts, numbered in both directions by twos from 0 to 18. A tan suede sleeve has a round white sticker marked: 8-63 (/) $2.45 (/) Four-Bevel.
- Francis E. Vaughan and Floyd Eubanks founded V & E Manufacturing, or Vemco Corporation, in Pasadena, Calif., in 1939 to make high-quality drafting instruments. Eubanks patented eight drafting machines and drawing instruments in the early 1940s.
- Reference: Vemco Drafting Products Corporation, http://www.vemcocorp.com/.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Credit Line
- Gift of George A. Norton
- ca 1963
- ID Number
- 1990.0689.02
- accession number
- 1990.0689
- catalog number
- 1990.0689.02
- Object Name
- rule
- scale rule
- Physical Description
- suede (overall material)
- metal (overall material)
- Measurements
- overall: .3 cm x 28.3 cm x 3.8 cm; 1/8 in x 11 5/32 in x 1 1/2 in
- place made
- United States: California, Pasadena
- See more items in
- Medicine and Science: Mathematics
- Science & Mathematics
- Scale Rules
- National Museum of American History
- Subject
- Mathematics
- Drafting, Engineering
- Record ID
- nmah_904795
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746a7-34ca-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa
