Object Details
maker
Bugbee, H. K.
Description
This 56-page paper pamphlet, copyrighted in 1881, has the full title A Revised Key to Gould's Patent Arithmetical Frame; Containing Much New and Valuable Matter, Including Common Fractions, Percentage, and the Metric System. It has a variety of problems in addition, subtraction, multiplication, division and decimal fractions that could be set up on a teaching device called Gould's patent arithmetical frame, along with answers. A section of the pamphlet discusses the metric system, and a variety of other arithmetic problems are included.
On the cover, Gould’s address is given as 72 Murray St., New York. This address is crossed out and Chatham, N.J., is written in in ink.
For a related object, see 1994.0038.01. For related correspondence, see 1994.0038.03.
Location
Currently not on view
Credit Line
Gift of Joel S. and D. Hope Pratt
date made
1879
ID Number
1994.0038.02
accession number
1994.0038
catalog number
1994.0038.02
Object Name
pamphlet
Physical Description
paper (overall material)
Measurements
overall: .2 cm x 13.1 cm x 18.7 cm; 3/32 in x 5 5/32 in x 7 3/8 in
place made
United States: New York, New York City
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Medicine and Science: Mathematics
Science & Mathematics
Arithmetic Teaching
Data Source
National Museum of American History
Subject
Mathematics
Link to Original Record
Record ID
nmah_904597