Book, Goodrich's Lightning Calculator The Art of Computation
Book, Goodrich's Lightning Calculator The Art of Computation
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- Description
- This small book has a red cover with gold lettering. It has the full title The Art of Computation Designed to Teach Practical Methods of Reckoning with Accuracy and Rapidity, The title page also describes Goodrich as "late lightning calculator, Erie Railway." The 1873 publisher is listed as D. W. Goodrich & Company of 443 and 445 Broadway. The volume describes methods of calculation, with particular emphasis on business applications. Inside the back cover is a "Comprehensive Calendar" giving Julian and Gregorian, adjustable from A.D. 1 to 3600. Bibliographical sources indicate that further editions of the book appeared in New York later in the 1870s.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Object Name
- Book
- date made
- 1873
- maker
- Goodrich, David White
- place made
- United States: New York, New York City
- Physical Description
- paper (overall material)
- Measurements
- overall: 1 cm x 11.6 cm x 7.2 cm; 13/32 in x 4 9/16 in x 2 27/32 in
- ID Number
- MA.328415
- accession number
- 272524
- catalog number
- 328415
- Credit Line
- Gift of. Howard S. Pellatt
- subject
- Mathematics
- Education
- See more items in
- Medicine and Science: Mathematics
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
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