Ruling Pen
Ruling Pen
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- Description
- This 4-7/8" steel pen has twin blades whose line thickness is adjusted by a screw. The pen is not marked. Similar ruling pens first appeared in Europe at the beginning of the 18th century.
- References: Maya Hambly, Drawing Instruments, 1580–1980 (London: Sotheby's Publications, 1988), 57–58.
- Sotheby & Company, Catalogue of a Collection of Scientific Instruments, the Property of the Late Henry Russel Wray, London, 1959 (a copy of the catalogue is in the accession file).
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Object Name
- pen
- date made
- 18th century
- place made
- Europe
- Physical Description
- steel (overall material)
- Measurements
- overall:.7 cm x 12 cm x.7 cm; 9/32 in x 4 23/32 in x 9/32 in
- ID Number
- MA.316935
- accession number
- 228694
- catalog number
- 316935
- subject
- Drawing Instruments
- See more items in
- Medicine and Science: Mathematics
- Pens and Pencils
- Science & Mathematics
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
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