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
Comments
Hi, my name is Oscar and I was interested in this flyer because I recently came across a Sterling silver rule and I wanted to learn how to use it. I had absolutely no idea how old this mathematics tool is and it's amazing to me that it was manufactured in the early seventies. Thankyou for allowing the public to see these amazing parts of history that we all seem to forget.
Oscar valdeZ
Mon, 2017-12-04 15:24
Rose Yi
Fri, 2019-03-08 09:00