Object Details
- Eugene Dietzgen Company
- Description
- The citation information for this eighteen-page booklet is: How to Use a Slide Rule (Chicago: Eugene Dietzgen Co., 1942). After a description of the features of the slide rules sold by Dietzgen, the booklet gives a tour of the slide rule for beginners. Instructions are provided for reading a basic set of Mannheim scales, such as those on MA.335270. Sample problems in multiplication, division, square roots, proportion, and trigonometry are solved. Additional scales, such as K and CI, are briefly described.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Credit Line
- Gift of William J. Ellenberger
- 1942
- ID Number
- 1981.0933.07
- accession number
- 1981.0933
- catalog number
- 1981.0933.07
- Object Name
- booklet
- Physical Description
- paper (overall material)
- Measurements
- overall: 22.2 cm x 14.4 cm; 8 3/4 in x 5 21/32 in
- place made
- United States: Illinois, Chicago
- See more items in
- Medicine and Science: Mathematics
- Science & Mathematics
- Slide Rules
- National Museum of American History
- Subject
- Mathematics
- Rule, Calculating
- Education
- Record ID
- nmah_904351
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746a7-2f92-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa
