Object Details
- Sterling Plastics
- Description
- This one-page, two-sided flyer was received with 1990.0689.01. At the top of the front, it is marked with the Sterling Plastics logo and the words: STERLING metric converter (/) BASED ON THE INTERNATIONAL SYSTEM OF UNITS (SI). The instructions explain how to read off the sixteen conversions between metric and English units that are found on the Metric Converter slide rule. Tables of metric prefixes and of common equivalents and conversions are also provided. At the bottom of the back, the flyer is marked: STERLING PLASTICS DIVISION OF BORDEN CHEMICAL, BORDEN INC. • SHEFFIELD ST., MOUNTAINSIDE, N.J. 07092 (/) PRINTED IN U.S.A. The Borden logo appears to the right of the mark.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Credit Line
- Gift of George A. Norton III
- 1972
- ID Number
- 1990.0689.03
- accession number
- 1990.0689
- catalog number
- 1990.0689.03
- Object Name
- sheet
- Physical Description
- paper (overall material)
- Measurements
- overall: 34 cm x 18.7 cm; 13 3/8 in x 7 3/8 in
- place made
- United States: New Jersey, Mountainside
- See more items in
- Medicine and Science: Mathematics
- Metric System
- Science & Mathematics
- Slide Rules
- Measuring & Mapping
- National Museum of American History
- Subject
- Mathematics
- Rule, Calculating
- Record ID
- nmah_904587
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746a7-5b0b-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa
