Advertising Pamphlet for Otis King's Pocket Calculator
date: label: date made
content: ca 1965-1968
name: label: maker
content: Carbic Limited
notes: label: Description
content: The cover of this eight-page pamphlet is blue and black. It reads: HOW THE (/) OTIS KING (/) SPIRAL (/) SLIDE RULE (/) SAVES TIME (/) AND MISTAKES (/) IN ALL (/) CALCULATIONS (/) SIMPLE (/) QUICK (/) ACCURATE. The text describes the features and advantages of the Otis King cylindrical slide rule. Drawings demonstrate the three steps required to make calculations. The pamphlet also lists 13 sample problems the Otis King Pocket Calculator could solve, 37 companies that were major customers of the rule, and 50 professions that usefully employed the rule. The back page carries five anonymous testimonials and is stamped in blue ink with the address of the instrument's U.S. distributor: CALCULATOR COMPANY (/) BOX 593 (/) LAKEWOOD, CALIFORNIA 90714.
label: Description
content: This pamphlet arrived with 1989.3049.02. See also 1989.3049.03.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: California, Lakewood
topic: label: Subject
content: Mathematics
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content: Medicine and Science: Mathematics
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content: Advertising
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content: Science & Mathematics
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content: Slide Rules
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of LaVerne Watkins
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1989.3049.04
label: nonaccession number
content: 1989.3049
label: catalog number
content: 1989.3049.04
objectType: label: Object Name
content: leaflet
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: paper (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 22.4 cm x 10.4 cm x .1 cm; 8 13/16 in x 4 3/32 in x 1/32 in