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Instruction Manual for Keuffel & Esser Polyphase Duplex Pocket Slide Rule

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Instruction Manual for Keuffel & Esser Polyphase Duplex Pocket Slide Rule
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Object Details

maker

Keuffel & Esser Co.

Description

This 70-page booklet was received with 1993.0357.01. The book explains how to operate model 68–1555, which was model 4168 before 1962. Its citation information is: Keuffel & Esser Polyphase Duplex Pocket Slide Rule . . . Instruction Manual, 2nd ed. (New York: Keuffel & Esser Co., 1947). Presumably only the cover and illustration of the slide rule were updated in the 1960s. Topics covered include: multiplication and division, proportion, squares and square roots and cubes and cube roots, and plane trigonometry. Answers are provided at the back.

Location

Currently not on view

Credit Line

Gift of Alfred E. Brown

date made

1960s

ID Number

1993.0357.01.01

accession number

1993.0357

catalog number

1993.0357.01.01

Object Name

pamphlet

Physical Description

paper (overall material)

Measurements

overall: 19.8 cm x 13.4 cm; 7 25/32 in x 5 9/32 in

place made

United States: New York, New York City

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Medicine and Science: Mathematics
Science & Mathematics
Slide Rules

Data Source

National Museum of American History

Subject

Mathematics
Rule, Calculating

Metadata Usage

CC0

Link to Original Record

https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746ad-a340-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa

Record ID

nmah_1422681

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