French Curve or Irregular Curve
- Description
- This flat wooden drawing instrument has curves on the outside and within an inner opening. There are numerous scratch marks and stains. A faint pencil mark reads: #30E (/) 40 ¢.
- The shape of the curve is similar to an instrument shown in a Reeves & Sons catalog from 1904.
- Reference:
- Maya Hambly, Drawing Instruments, London: RIBA Drawings Collection, 1982, p. 32.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Physical Description
- wood (overall material)
- Measurements
- overall: .1 cm x 25.5 cm x 8.3 cm; 1/32 in x 10 1/32 in x 3 9/32 in
- ID Number
- MA.328399
- accession number
- 272517
- catalog number
- 328399
- Credit Line
- Gift of Eunice L. Hoffman
- subject
- Mathematics
- Drawing Instruments
- See more items in
- Medicine and Science: Mathematics
- Science & Mathematics
- Curves
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
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