Slide Rule Components, Base Piece and Slide (Four Examples)
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 four slide rule components consists of two wooden pieces with layers of white plastic on the top and on the bottom. Each edge piece is also inset with plastic along one edge. There are no scales. The pencil marks near on end of each component align on the two parts, and the pieces fit together. There are no scales. This is a combination of one component like those of 1983.3008.19 and one like 1983.3008.20.
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: 1983.3008.22
label: nonaccession number
content: 1983.3008
label: catalog number
content: 1983.3008.22
objectType: label: Object Name
content: calculating rule components, group of
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: .6 cm x 31.5 cm x 2.6 cm; 1/4 in x 12 13/32 in x 1 1/32 in