Instructions for Sterling Metric Converter Slide Rule
date: label: date made
content: 1972
name: label: maker
content: Sterling Plastics
notes: label: Description
content: 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.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: New Jersey, Mountainside
topic: label: Subject
content: Mathematics
label: Subject
content: Rule, Calculating
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content: Medicine and Science: Mathematics
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content: Metric System
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content: Science & Mathematics
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content: Slide Rules
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content: Measuring & Mapping
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of George A. Norton III
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1990.0689.03
label: accession number
content: 1990.0689
label: catalog number
content: 1990.0689.03
objectType: label: Object Name
content: sheet
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: paper (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 34 cm x 18.7 cm; 13 3/8 in x 7 3/8 in