Keuffel & Esser Instructions for Log Log Duplex Slide Rule
Object Details
- Keuffel & Esser Co.
- Description
- This eight-page pamphlet was received with 1981.0933.01. It is undated, but Clark McCoy reports the text was written around 1914. This copy was probably printed later, around 1920. It explains the scales on K&E's model 4092 slide rule, works eleven sample problems, and advertises K&E calculating devices.
- Reference: Clark McCoy, ed., "K&E Log Log Duplex Slide Rules," http://www.mccoys-kecatalogs.com/KEManuals/manuals.htm#4092.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Credit Line
- Gift of William J. Ellenberger
- ca 1920
- ID Number
- 1981.0933.02
- accession number
- 1981.0933
- catalog number
- 1981.0933.02
- Object Name
- pamphlet
- Physical Description
- paper (overall material)
- Measurements
- overall: 22.3 cm x 14.6 cm x .1 cm; 8 25/32 in x 5 3/4 in x 1/32 in
- place made
- United States: New York, New York City
- See more items in
- Medicine and Science: Mathematics
- Advertising
- Science & Mathematics
- Slide Rules
- National Museum of American History
- Subject
- Mathematics
- Rule, Calculating
- Record ID
- nmah_904699
- Metadata Usage (text)
- CC0
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746a7-4db4-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa
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