How to Use a Slide Rule
date: label: date made
content: 1942
name: label: maker
content: Eugene Dietzgen Company
notes: label: Description
content: The citation information for this eighteen-page booklet is: <i>How to Use a Slide Rule</i> (Chicago: Eugene Dietzgen Co., 1942). After a description of the features of the slide rules sold by Dietzgen, the booklet gives a tour of the slide rule for beginners. Instructions are provided for reading a basic set of Mannheim scales, such as those on MA.335270. Sample problems in multiplication, division, square roots, proportion, and trigonometry are solved. Additional scales, such as K and CI, are briefly described.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Illinois, Chicago
topic: label: Subject
content: Mathematics
label: Subject
content: Rule, Calculating
label: Subject
content: Education
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content: Medicine and Science: Mathematics
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content: Science & Mathematics
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content: Slide Rules
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of William J. Ellenberger
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1981.0933.07
label: accession number
content: 1981.0933
label: catalog number
content: 1981.0933.07
objectType: label: Object Name
content: booklet
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: paper (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 22.2 cm x 14.4 cm; 8 3/4 in x 5 21/32 in