Accession Number: 2018.14.1-9
Description: .1) Bright aluminum protractor, with pins on bottom to engage in a drawing board; swiveling indicator bar, arc of protractor is notched in five degree increments and marked with raised dots at fifteen degree increments, base of protractor is marked in inches, with tactile notch at each full inch, and raised dots at quarter inch increments along with braille numbers counting 1-12; stamped on base, "HOWE PRESS/PERKINS SCHOOL/WATERTOWN, MASS." .2) Bright aluminum ruler, with pins on bottom to engage in drawing board; tactile notch on top edge at each full inch, raised dots at each quarter inch, and numbered in braille 1-12; stamped, "HOWE PRESS/PERKINS SCHOOL/WATERTOWN, MASS." .3) Bright aluminum square or right angle, stamped ""HOWE PRESS/PERKINS SCHOOL/WATERTOWN, MASS." .4) Bright aluminum stylus, one half of shaft is hexagonal, tapering at end to a white nylon tip; other half of shaft is knurled, tapering to steel stylus inserted in tip; stamped "HOWE PRESS/WATERTOWN, MASS." .5) Blackened steel tracing wheel, flat bar, rounded on handle and tapering to steel star wheel on tip, with crossbar inserted through shaft just above taper; stamped, "HOWE PRESS/WATERTOWN, MASS." .6) Blackened steel compass, handle at top is knurled and fitted to round spring, legs adjusted with a knurled thumb screw on a threaded screw mounted on the side, one rounded foot and one needle foot; stamped on leg, "HOWE PRESS/WATERTOWN, MASS." .7) Blackened steel compass with star wheel, handle at top is knurled and fitted to round spring, legs adjusted with a knurled thumb screw on a threaded screw mounted on the side, one star wheel foot and one needle foot; stamped on leg, "HOWE PRESS/WATERTOWN, MASS." .8) Freehand drawing stylus: stainless steel bar bent into U shape spring; hollow point steel stylus secured by black knob on top extension; steel dot on bottom extension which meets stylus point when spring/bar is compressed. .9) Envelope of Mylar embossing sheets.
Date Made: ca. 1980
Maker: Howe Press/Perkins School
Place of Origin: Watertown, Massachusetts
Credit Line: Museum Collection, 2018.14.
Subjects: Blindness Drawing Education of disabled persons Geometry Mathematical instruments
Dimension Notes: .1) 12 x 6.625 x .5" .2) 12 x .75 x .5" .3) 6.5 x 6.5" .4) 5" x .375" diameter .5) 4.875 x .375 x 1" .6) 8.25 x 3.5 x .75" .7) 8.5 x 3.5 x .75" .8) 9 x .875 x 2.875"
Made: Howe Press, Perkins School
Material: Steel, aluminum, nylon
Updated: 02/16/2021
