Instruction Manual for Pickett 101-C Circular Slide Rule
Object Details
- publisher
- Pickett Industries
- author
- Hartung, Maurice L.
- Description
- This 24-page booklet was received with 1981.0922.12. Its citation information is: Maurice L. Hartung, Dial Rule Circular Slide Rule: Your Model No. 101-C Instruction Manual (Chicago & Alhambra, Calif.: Pickett & Eckel, Inc., 1957). The back is marked: PRINTED IN U.S.A.; FORM M-18. The Pickett logo on the front cover was used between 1958 and 1962.
- The manual provides instructions and processes for the C and CI scales, multiplication, division, combined operations, the A and Af scales (for square roots), logarithms and adding fractions, the LL scale, the DS and DT scales (for drill sizes and double depth of threads), the M scale (for metric conversions), and the S, ST, and T scales (for trigonometry). There are 24 problems and answers on the back page.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Credit Line
- Gift of John White
- ca 1958
- ID Number
- 1981.0922.13
- accession number
- 1981.0922
- catalog number
- 1981.0922.13
- Object Name
- pamphlet
- Physical Description
- paper (overall material)
- Measurements
- overall: 10.8 cm x 8.2 cm x .1 cm; 4 1/4 in x 3 7/32 in x 1/32 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_904709
- Metadata Usage (text)
- CC0
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746a7-5073-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa
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