Object Details
maker
Hartung, Maurice L.
Description
The citation information for this small 32-page booklet is: Maurice L. Hartung, How to Use the 300 Log Log Trig Pocket Slide Rule (Chicago: Pickett & Eckel, Inc., 1949). It provides general information on how to use slide rules, including the arithmetical operations, locating the decimal point, combining multiplication and division, using the folded scales, calculating roots, trigonometry, and vectors.
Model 300 was a six-inch, pocket-sized duplex slide rule and is not presently represented in the Smithsonian collections, although 1999.0096.01 is a ten-inch log log trig rule. Hartung was a University of Chicago professor who helped Pickett & Eckel market their products to schools and who wrote several instruction manuals for the company's slide rules. See 1979.0601.02.
Location
Currently not on view
Credit Line
Gift of Frank M. Graves
date made
1949
ID Number
1979.0601.03
accession number
1979.0601
catalog number
1979.0601.03
Object Name
pamphlet
Physical Description
paper (overall material)
Measurements
overall: 15.2 cm x 10.7 cm x .2 cm; 5 31/32 in x 4 7/32 in x 3/32 in
place made
United States: Illinois, Chicago
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Medicine and Science: Mathematics
Science & Mathematics
Trigonometry
Slide Rules
Data Source
National Museum of American History
Subject
Mathematics
Rule, Calculating
Education
Link to Original Record
Record ID
nmah_904688