Object Details
- Georgia Iron Works Co.
- Description
- In the mid-twentieth century, engineers designing slide rules often carried out extensive calculations by hand. The documentation for the Georgia Iron Works hydraulic slide rule (2009.0100.01) includes numerous pages of such calculations, as well as four blueprints showing the design of the rule. Correspondence between Danforth W. Hagler, who designed the slide rule, and officials of Pickett & Eckel Company, the manufacturer, is also included. The letters and drawings are dated 1961.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Credit Line
- Gift of Danforth W. Hagler
- 1961
- ID Number
- 2009.0100.04
- accession number
- 2009.0100
- catalog number
- 2009.0100.04
- Object Name
- documentation
- Physical Description
- paper (overall material)
- Measurements
- overall: 38 cm x 23 cm x 2 cm; 14 31/32 in x 9 1/16 in x 25/32 in
- place made
- United States: Georgia, Augusta
- See more items in
- Medicine and Science: Mathematics
- Science & Mathematics
- Slide Rules
- National Museum of American History
- Subject
- Mathematics
- Rule, Calculating
- Engineering
- Record ID
- nmah_1349112
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746ac-a591-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa
