Manual for Gilson Midget Circular Slide Rule
date: label: date made
content: ca 1940
name: label: maker
content: Gilson Slide Rule Company
notes: label: Description
content: This twelve-page booklet was received with 1998.0119.01. It provides instructions for using the Midget circular slide rule manufactured by Gilson Slide Rule Company of Stuart, Fla. It describes each of the scales and gives a sample problem for computing a merchant's overhead costs as a percentage of profit. It advertises Gilson's Atlas and Binary slide rules and provides a list of formulas and equivalent measurements.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Florida, Stuart
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 Donald F. Mela
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1998.0119.03
label: catalog number
content: 1998.0119.03
label: accession number
content: 1998.0119
objectType: label: Object Name
content: pamphlet
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: paper (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 9.2 cm x 16 cm x .2 cm; 3 5/8 in x 6 5/16 in x 3/32 in