How to Use a Slide Rule

Instructions for Slide Rules by Dietzgen

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Object Details

maker

Eugene Dietzgen Company

Description

The citation information for this eighteen-page booklet is: How to Use a Slide Rule (Chicago: Eugene Dietzgen Co., 1942). After a description of the features of the slide rules sold by Dietzgen, the booklet gives a tour of the slide rule for beginners. Instructions are provided for reading a basic set of Mannheim scales, such as those on MA.335270. Sample problems in multiplication, division, square roots, proportion, and trigonometry are solved. Additional scales, such as K and CI, are briefly described.

Location

Currently not on view

Credit Line

Gift of William J. Ellenberger

date made

1942

ID Number

1981.0933.07

accession number

1981.0933

catalog number

1981.0933.07

Object Name

booklet

Physical Description

paper (overall material)

Measurements

overall: 22.2 cm x 14.4 cm; 8 3/4 in x 5 21/32 in

place made

United States: Illinois, Chicago

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Medicine and Science: Mathematics

Science & Mathematics

Slide Rules

Data Source

National Museum of American History

Subject

Mathematics

Rule, Calculating

Education

Metadata Usage

CC0

Link to Original Record

https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746a7-2f92-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa

Record ID

nmah_904351