Pamphlet, A Revised Key to Gould's Patent Artihmetical Frame
Object Details
- 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
- 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
- See more items in
- Medicine and Science: Mathematics
- Science & Mathematics
- Arithmetic Teaching
- National Museum of American History
- Subject
- Mathematics
- Record ID
- nmah_904597
- Metadata Usage (text)
- CC0
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746a7-4d11-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa
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