Hierarchy classification:

1. top of the aat hierarchies
2. Objects Facet
3. Furnishings and Equipment (hierarchy name)
4. Tools and Equipment (hierarchy name)
5. equipment
6. [equipment by process]
7. image-making equipment
8. [equipment for drafting, drawing, and writing]
9. [drafting, drawing and writing equipment by specific type]

Anotations

Scope note:

Relatively small pencil-shaped instruments with a hard point, often metal or bone, used for marking, writing, or drawing. Among uses for styluses are for incising lines on a soft surface such as wax, for transferring drawings through tracing with pressure, with inked ribbon as a tracing-point in devices such as a seismograph or telegraph receiver, and as an indicator on touch-sensitive electronic devices.