Object Details
- Carbic Limited
- Description
- The cover of this eight-page pamphlet is blue and black. It reads: HOW THE (/) OTIS KING (/) SPIRAL (/) SLIDE RULE (/) SAVES TIME (/) AND MISTAKES (/) IN ALL (/) CALCULATIONS (/) SIMPLE (/) QUICK (/) ACCURATE. The text describes the features and advantages of the Otis King cylindrical slide rule. Drawings demonstrate the three steps required to make calculations. The pamphlet also lists 13 sample problems the Otis King Pocket Calculator could solve, 37 companies that were major customers of the rule, and 50 professions that usefully employed the rule. The back page carries five anonymous testimonials and is stamped in blue ink with the address of the instrument's U.S. distributor: CALCULATOR COMPANY (/) BOX 593 (/) LAKEWOOD, CALIFORNIA 90714.
- This pamphlet arrived with 1989.3049.02. See also 1989.3049.03.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Credit Line
- Gift of LaVerne Watkins
- ca 1965-1968
- ID Number
- 1989.3049.04
- nonaccession number
- 1989.3049
- catalog number
- 1989.3049.04
- Object Name
- leaflet
- Physical Description
- paper (overall material)
- Measurements
- overall: 22.4 cm x 10.4 cm x .1 cm; 8 13/16 in x 4 3/32 in x 1/32 in
- place made
- United States: California, Lakewood
- See more items in
- Medicine and Science: Mathematics
- Advertising
- Science & Mathematics
- Slide Rules
- National Museum of American History
- Subject
- Mathematics
- Record ID
- nmah_1415507
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746ad-9f48-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa
