Object Details
- Carbic Limited
- Description
- This flyer, printed in blue ink on white paper, is titled: Simplify any Calculation with an Otis King. The text identifies potential users and describes the functions of this cylindrical slide rule. The back of the flyer lists six sample problems the Otis King Pocket Calculator could solve. It is stamped with the address of an English dealer of scientific instruments: H. T. POCKETT. (/) 25. NELSON ROAD. (/) GREENWICH. S.E.10. The price is listed as 47s. 6d. postpaid.
- The flyer arrived with 1987.0788.01 and probably dates to the same period, from about 1960 to 1962. See also 1987.0788.06.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Credit Line
- Gift of Howard I. Chappelle
- ca 1960-1962
- ID Number
- 1987.0788.07
- accession number
- 1987.0788
- catalog number
- 1987.0788.07
- Object Name
- sheet
- Physical Description
- paper (overall material)
- Measurements
- overall: 20.5 cm x 13 cm; 8 1/16 in x 5 1/8 in
- place made
- United Kingdom: England, London
- See more items in
- Medicine and Science: Mathematics
- Science & Mathematics
- Slide Rules
- National Museum of American History
- Subject
- Mathematics
- Rule, Calculating
- Record ID
- nmah_904568
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746a7-2e3e-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa
