Instruction Manual for Dietzgen 1771 Redirule Slide Rule
Instruction Manual for Dietzgen 1771 Redirule Slide Rule
- Description
- This sixteen-page booklet lists no author or date. Its drawing of a slide rule corresponds to 1993.0357.02, with which it was received. The instructions explain how to: read the scales; multiply; place the decimal point; divide; combine multiplication and division; solve proportion problems; read the CI scale; compute squares and square roots and cubes and cube roots; solve problems in trigonometry; and work with logarithms.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- date made
- 1941-1972
- maker
- Eugene Dietzgen Company
- place made
- United States: Illinois, Chicago
- Physical Description
- paper (overall material)
- Measurements
- overall: 20.3 cm x 10.4 cm; 8 in x 4 3/32 in
- ID Number
- 1993.0357.02.01
- accession number
- 1993.0357
- catalog number
- 1993.0357.02.01
- Credit Line
- Gift of Alfred E. Brown
- subject
- Mathematics
- Education
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- Medicine and Science: Mathematics
- Science & Mathematics
- Slide Rules
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
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