Instructions for Sterling Precision Slide Rule
Instructions for Sterling Precision Slide Rule
- Description
- ID number 1988.0807.01 was received with this flyer, which is marked on the front: STERLING SLIDE RULE A QUALITY INSTRUMENT FOR (/) STUDENT OR PROFESSIONAL (/) OPERATING INSTRUCTIONS (/) A complete course in use and operation of slide rule [sic]. The instructions cover multiplication and division, the CI scale (which is called the C1 scale), squares (the A and B scales) and square roots, and the K, L, S, and T scales. The back of the flyer is marked: STERLING PLASTICS CO. (/) MANUFACTURERS OF QUALITY SCHOOL SUPPLIES (/) 1140 Commerce Avenue, Union, New Jersey. The company logo (the letters SP inside a clear circle that is in turn inside a square formed of horizontal lines) is to the left of the mark. Sterling Plastics, whose main factory was in Mountainside, N.J., sold a variety of inexpensive plastic slide rules for students in the 1960s and 1970s.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- date made
- 1961-1972
- maker
- Sterling Plastics
- place made
- United States: New Jersey, Mountainside
- Physical Description
- paper (overall material)
- Measurements
- overall: 28.5 cm x 19 cm; 11 7/32 in x 7 15/32 in
- ID Number
- 1988.0807.05
- accession number
- 1988.0807
- catalog number
- 1988.0807.05
- Credit Line
- Gift of George A. Norton
- subject
- Mathematics
- Rule, Calculating
- See more items in
- Medicine and Science: Mathematics
- Science & Mathematics
- Slide Rules
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
