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 with the instrument. 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.
- This pamphlet arrived with 1981.0922.09 and 1981.0922.11. It is exactly the same as 1989.3049.04, except that it is not stamped with information about where the rule was purchased.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Credit Line
- Gift of John White
- 1965-1970
- ID Number
- 1981.0922.10
- accession number
- 1981.0922
- catalog number
- 1981.0922.10
- Object Name
- pamphlet
- Physical Description
- paper (overall material)
- Measurements
- overall: 22.3 cm x 10.3 cm; 8 25/32 in x 4 1/16 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_904707
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746a7-5071-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa
