Calculating Machine Components
Calculating Machine Components
- Description
- These objects were collected by Brooklyn high school teacher and historian of mathematics L. Leland Locke. The metal rings come in three sizes. Seventeen are .5 cm. in diameter (one of these has been cut), six are .8 cm. in diameter, and four are 1.3 cm. in diameter.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Object Name
- calculating machine components
- Physical Description
- metal (overall material)
- Measurements
- overall: 2.7 cm x 1.1 cm x 1.1 cm; 1 1/16 in x 7/16 in x 7/16 in
- ID Number
- 1983.3003.042
- nonaccession number
- 1983.3003
- catalog number
- 1983.3003.042
- Credit Line
- Gift of L. Leland Locke
- subject
- Mathematics
- See more items in
- Medicine and Science: Mathematics
- Science & Mathematics
- Calculating Machines
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
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