Pamphlet, Abacus Arithmetic
date: label: date made
content: 1958
name: label: maker
content: Crook, Welton J.
notes: label: Description
content: This illustrated paperback book gives detailed instructions for using a Chinese abacus to add, subtract, multiply, divide, extract square roots, and find cube roots. Australian-born metallurgist, Stanford University graduate, and later Stanford professor of metallurgy Welton J. Crook (1886-1976). Crook wrote it. He became fascinated with the abacus on a visit to Hong Kong, and resolved to publish a clear exposition on the instrument in English. His short book was published in 1958 by Pacific Books in Palo Alto, California, and sold tens of thousands of copies. For an abacus collected with this book, see 1989.0709.01. The abacus and the book were given to the Smithsonian by Washington, D. C., clockmaker Elton L. Howe in 1989.
label: Description
content: On Crook, see: Stanford University Faculty Memorials, “Memorial Resolution Welton J. Crook (1886-1976)," digitized by the Stanford Historical Society.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: California, Palo Alto
topic: label: Subject
content: Mathematics
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content: Medicine and Science: Mathematics
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content: Abacus
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content: Science & Mathematics
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Elton L. Howe
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1989.0709.03
label: accession number
content: 1989.0709
label: catalog number
content: 1989.0709.03
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Pamphlet
label: Object Name
content: pamphlet
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: paper (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 12.7 cm x 20.3 cm; 5 in x 8 in