Instruction Manual for Dietzgen 1771 Redirule Slide Rule
date: label: date made
content: 1941-1972
name: label: maker
content: Eugene Dietzgen Company
notes: label: Description
content: This sixteen-page booklet lists no author or date. Its drawing of a slide rule corresponds to 1993.0357.02, with which it was received. The instructions explain how to: read the scales; multiply; place the decimal point; divide; combine multiplication and division; solve proportion problems; read the CI scale; compute squares and square roots and cubes and cube roots; solve problems in trigonometry; and work with logarithms.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Illinois, Chicago
topic: label: Subject
content: Mathematics
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 Alfred E. Brown
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1993.0357.02.01
label: accession number
content: 1993.0357
label: catalog number
content: 1993.0357.02.01
objectType: label: Object Name
content: pamphlet
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: paper (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 20.3 cm x 10.4 cm; 8 in x 4 3/32 in