Advertisement for Otis King's Pocket Calculator
date: label: date made
content: ca 1960-1962
name: label: maker
content: Carbic Limited
notes: label: Description
content: This flyer, printed in blue ink on white paper, is titled: Simplify any Calculation with an Otis King. The text identifies potential users and describes the functions of this cylindrical slide rule. The back of the flyer lists six sample problems the Otis King Pocket Calculator could solve. It is stamped with the address of an English dealer of scientific instruments: H. T. POCKETT. (/) 25. NELSON ROAD. (/) GREENWICH. S.E.10. The price is listed as 47s. 6d. postpaid.
label: Description
content: The flyer arrived with 1987.0788.01 and probably dates to the same period, from about 1960 to 1962. See also 1987.0788.06.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United Kingdom: England, London
topic: label: Subject
content: Mathematics
label: Subject
content: Rule, Calculating
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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 Howard I. Chappelle
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1987.0788.07
label: accession number
content: 1987.0788
label: catalog number
content: 1987.0788.07
objectType: label: Object Name
content: sheet
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: paper (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 20.5 cm x 13 cm; 8 1/16 in x 5 1/8 in