Object Details
maker
Ricoh Measuring Instruments
Description
This tan, 36-page booklet is titled: Staedtler-Mars Instructions for Use, Modles [sic] No. 944 24 No. 945 24 Bamboo Slide Rule. The back cover is marked: Printed in Japan.
The instructions define the scales; explain how to multiply and divide; solve problems of proportion; discuss squares and square roots; calculate cubes, cube roots, 3/2 power, and 2/3 power; explain logarithms; provide processes for trigonometric functions; discuss the P or Pythagorean scale; explain the LL scales; and define this rule's five gauge marks. The German firm of Staedtler distributed the rule with which the booklet was received (2009.0019.02). Ricoh, the Japanese company that made the rule, presumably prepared the instructions.
Reference: Paul Ross, "Relay/Ricoh Slide Rules," Journal of the Oughtred Society 9, no. 2 (2000): 64–65.
Location
Currently not on view
Credit Line
Gift of Harley Flanders
date made
1960-1972
ID Number
2009.0019.02.01
accession number
2009.0019
catalog number
2009.0019.02.01
Object Name
pamphlet
Physical Description
paper (overall material)
Measurements
overall: 18.3 cm x 12.8 cm x .3 cm; 7 7/32 in x 5 1/32 in x 1/8 in
place made
Japan
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Medicine and Science: Mathematics
Science & Mathematics
Slide Rules
Data Source
National Museum of American History
Subject
Mathematics
Rule, Calculating
Link to Original Record
Record ID
nmah_1423502