Instruction Manual for Pickett & Eckel Log Log Trig Slide Rule
Object Details
- Hartung, Maurice L.
- Description
- The citation information for this small 32-page booklet is: Maurice L. Hartung, How to Use the 300 Log Log Trig Pocket Slide Rule (Chicago: Pickett & Eckel, Inc., 1949). It provides general information on how to use slide rules, including the arithmetical operations, locating the decimal point, combining multiplication and division, using the folded scales, calculating roots, trigonometry, and vectors.
- Model 300 was a six-inch, pocket-sized duplex slide rule and is not presently represented in the Smithsonian collections, although 1999.0096.01 is a ten-inch log log trig rule. Hartung was a University of Chicago professor who helped Pickett & Eckel market their products to schools and who wrote several instruction manuals for the company's slide rules. See 1979.0601.02.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Credit Line
- Gift of Frank M. Graves
- 1949
- ID Number
- 1979.0601.03
- accession number
- 1979.0601
- catalog number
- 1979.0601.03
- Object Name
- pamphlet
- Physical Description
- paper (overall material)
- Measurements
- overall: 15.2 cm x 10.7 cm x .2 cm; 5 31/32 in x 4 7/32 in x 3/32 in
- place made
- United States: Illinois, Chicago
- See more items in
- Medicine and Science: Mathematics
- Science & Mathematics
- Trigonometry
- Slide Rules
- National Museum of American History
- Subject
- Mathematics
- Rule, Calculating
- Education
- Record ID
- nmah_904688
- Metadata Usage (text)
- CC0
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746a7-4c3c-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa
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