Post Instruction Manual for Versalog Slide Rule
date: label: date made
content: 1951
name: label: publisher
content: Frederick Post Co.
label: maker
content: Frederick Post Co.
notes: label: Description
content: In 1950 and 1951, three Illinois Institute of Technology engineering professors participated in the development of the Versalog slide rule, manufactured by Hemmi of Tokyo, Japan, for the Frederick Post Company of Chicago. E. I. Fiesenheiser, R. A. Budenholzer, and B. A. Fischer subsequently prepared this 115-page hardcover volume explaining the slide rule's capabilities. They covered the care of the instrument, its twenty-three scales, multiplication and division, squares and cubes, exponentials and logarithms, and trigonometric operations. Each professor also contributed a chapter on applications in his specialty: civil, mechanical, or electrical engineering.
label: Description
content: This copy is stamped inside the front cover and on the edges: WILLIAM KRUTZ ESQ. See 1978.0800.01.
label: Description
content: Reference: E. I. Fiesenheiser, <i>The Versalog Slide Rule: An Instruction Manual</i> (Chicago: The Frederick Post Company, 1951), http://sliderulemuseum.com/Manuals/M34_Post_Versalog_1951.pdf.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Illinois, Chicago
topic: label: Subject
content: Mathematics
label: Subject
content: Engineering
label: Subject
content: Education
label: Subject
content: Rule, Calculating
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content: Medicine and Science: Mathematics
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content: Slide Rules
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of William K. Krutz
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1978.0800.02
label: accession number
content: 1978.0800
label: catalog number
content: 1978.0800.02
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content: book
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: paper (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 21 cm x 14.7 cm x 1.2 cm; 8 9/32 in x 5 25/32 in x 15/32 in