Pamphlet, How to Use Log Log Slide Rules
Pamphlet, How to Use Log Log Slide Rules
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- Description
- American slide rule manufacturers sometimes hired university professors to prepare instruction manuals for their products. Maurice L. Hartung, a professor of education at the University of Chicago, prepared this one for Pickett, Inc. The ninety-five page paperbound volume describes a wide range of scales found on Pickett slide rules. It was copyrighted in 1953.
- The instructions came to the Smithsonian with a Pickett Model N-500-ES slide rule from 1962 or later (see 1999.0096.01).
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Object Name
- Pamphlet
- date made
- ca 1962
- place made
- United States: California, Oakland
- Physical Description
- paper (overall material)
- Measurements
- overall:.5 cm x 13.5 cm x 21 cm; 3/16 in x 5 5/16 in x 8 9/32 in
- ID Number
- 1999.0096.02
- catalog number
- 1999.0096.02
- accession number
- 1999.0096
- Credit Line
- Gift of Thomas A. Bair II
- subject
- Mathematics
- See more items in
- Medicine and Science: Mathematics
- Science & Mathematics
- Slide Rules
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
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