Slide Rule Components, Base Pieces
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 of these brown wooden rods has a layer of white plastic on the top and on the bottom. It is marked with a pencil line on one side near one end. A groove has been carved into one long edge of each rod and a white plastic inset is along the other. The pieces have no scales.
label: Description
content: These pieces formed the top and bottom of a slide rule, with rods like those in 1983.3008.19 sliding through them, an indicator, and metal pieces at each end holding everything together.
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: 1983.3008.21
label: nonaccession number
content: 1983.3008
label: catalog number
content: 1983.3008.21
objectType: label: Object Name
content: calculating rule components, group of
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: .6 cm x 29.1 cm x 1 cm; 1/4 in x 11 15/32 in x 13/32 in