LA Office’s Wonderful Variety of Rulers!
Over the years rulers have come in many forms, from wood, plastic, fabric and metal, you’ll even find that once upon a time they were made of ivory! The very first calibrated foot ruler was invented in 1675 by an unknown inventor, and today you will see these rulers on most every desk in the home, school and office. However the rulers uses are not quite as straight forward and few as we may think, just take a look at what this simple tool can help us with!
The ruler is used in the home, the school, at work, for math and geometry, sewing
and quilt making, for measuring spaces, by surveyors in order to draw an area of land and in the past, if you’d been particularly naughty, your teacher may have even used a ruler to slap you across the knuckles or on the bottom! Other uses include;
- To quickly split paper
- Drawing straight lines
- Providing a straight guide for cutting and scoring with a blade
- Making technical drawings
- Drawing margins in books or on paper
- Creating lined paper
- Marking off measurements in fractions
- Helping to connect two straight lines
- Measuring heights, lengths and widths
- To flick small objects (such as chewed up paper) across the classroom (not recommended)
These tools are certainly indispensable! Also known as a rule, rulers are marked in increments of inches but often also have metric markings on the opposite edge or reverse side such as centimetres (cm) or millimetres (mm). Steel rules are considered the most accurate, so if optimum precision is what you’re looking for, then try browsing through our selection of steel rulers.
You will find however that we also have a large variety of standard plastic desk rulers which are used for three main purposes; to measure, to aid in drawing straight lines and as a straight guide for cutting and scoring with a blade. Choose from an extensive selection of brands here and from some very favourable offers!
