Slide Rule Components, Two Base Pieces, Each with a Slide
name: label: maker
content: Keuffel & Esser Co.
notes: label: Description
content: Keuffel & Esser Company, which had its headquarters in New York City, was a leading American maufacturer of slide rules and drawing instruments. Between 1961 and 1971, the company gave the Smithsonian a variety of slide rule parts, including these. Each component consists of two wooden pieces with plastic layers on the top and bottom. Both edge pieces are inset with plastic along one edge. There is a pencil line near the end of all four rods, but no scales. The markings on the paired pieces align and they fit together. Both base pieces are marked: 052. Both slides are marked: 191152.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: New Jersey, Hoboken
topic: label: Subject
content: Mathematics
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content: Medicine and Science: Mathematics
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content: Slide Rules
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Keuffel & Esser Company
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1983.3008.24
label: nonaccession number
content: 1983.3008
label: catalog number
content: 1983.3008.24
objectType: label: Object Name
content: calculating rule components, group of
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: .6 cm x 32.5 cm x 3 cm; 1/4 in x 12 25/32 in x 1 3/16 in