[Ipg-smz] Rulers from an older universe...

Gabe Goldberg gabe at gabegold.com
Sat Apr 6 15:57:40 UTC 2019


Having attended Brooklyn Technical High School (four years of mechanical 
drawing classes) and Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn (one semester, 
not challenging after the four years!) my closet still holds (along with 
manual typewriter that got me through high school and college) artifacts 
like drawing board and T-square, protractors, compasses, French curves, 
etc.

Closer at hand, in desk, there's plastic ruler with five scales: inches, 
inch tenths, centimeters, punch card volume (!), sixths of inches (?), 
plus uniformly spaced holes the length of ruler whose function eludes me.

It's a Plastigraf #244 made in Italy!

https://www.ebay.com/itm/Plastigraf-Plastic-Ruler-No-244-17-Inch-Thick-Plastic-Card-Volume-VGC-/223194128903

https://www.google.com/search?q=plastigraf+244&tbm=isch&source=univ&client=firefox-b-1-d&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiW-IKJ6rvhAhXiy4MKHeDUCMYQsAR6BAgJEAE&biw=1450&bih=767#imgrc=2c0puxfqKovMFM:

On 4/4/2019 1:55 PM, Daniel Dern wrote:
>
> So I'm at my desk, and needed to measure something, and the first 
> ruler at hand is  wooden one, and I was having trouble figuring out 
> what it was telling me, inch wise... then I noticed that, in addition 
> to inches and metric (one on ech side), one side measured "picas" and 
> the other "6/12 points."
>
> The rules says "Westcott Printers Rule." No clue where/when I got it.
>
> DPD
>
>
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