Object Details
Description
This brass rule has six diagonal scales (each 1-1/4" or 3.1 cm wide) next to each other, an unmarked slide (3.3 cm wide) with beveled edges at the top and bottom, and a stand or endpiece (3.3 cm deep). The Japanese Empire Department of Education displayed this object at the 1876 World's Fair, the Centennial Exhibition in Philadelphia. It was subsequently transferred to the U.S. Bureau of Education (then part of the Department of the Interior) for a planned museum. The museum closed in 1906 due to high maintenance costs, and the object was transferred to the Smithsonian in 1910.
Other educational mathematical objects exhibited by Japan in 1876 include MA.261298, MA.261301, MA.261302, MA.261305, MA.261306, and MA.261313.
Location
Currently not on view
Credit Line
Transfer from Bureau of Education, Department of the Interior
date made
before 1876
ID Number
MA.261302
catalog number
261302
accession number
51116
Object Name
scale rule, with slide
rule, sliding
Physical Description
brass (overall material)
Measurements
overall: 3.4 cm x 19 cm x 3.6 cm; 1 11/32 in x 7 15/32 in x 1 13/32 in
place made
Japan
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Data Source
National Museum of American History
Subject
Mathematics
Expositions and Fairs
Education
Link to Original Record
Record ID
nmah_1215119