IBM Machine Load Computer Slide Rule
date: label: date made
content: 1953-1959
name: label: maker
content: International Business Machines Corporation
notes: label: Description
content: This plastic rectangular instrument calculated the time required for different types of IBM punched card equipment to process given numbers of cards. The black side is for accounting machines, sorters, and collators. The white side is for card punches, verifiers, and auxiliary machines. These machines were in use from roughly 1953 through 1959. The white side is marked: IBM; International Business Machines Corp. (/) 590 Madison Ave. New York 22, N.Y. (/) Patent Applied For. It is also marked THINK and MADE IN U.S.A. An instruction card is provided. A tan envelope is marked: IBM (/) MACHINE LOAD COMPUTER (/) AND DESCRIPTIVE FOLDER (/) Form 20-8704-1. No patent record was located.
label: Description
content: Benjamin S. Mulitz, the donor, worked with punched card equipment and then with computers from 1940 until 1985. He used both Remington Rand and IBM products. He was employed by the U.S. government and then in the wholesale drug industry.
label: Description
content: Reference: accession file.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: New York, New York City
topic: label: Subject
content: Mathematics
label: Subject
content: Rule, Calculating
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content: Medicine and Science: Mathematics
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content: Computers & Business Machines
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content: Science & Mathematics
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content: Slide Rules
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Benjamin S. Mulitz
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2006.0174.02
label: accession number
content: 2006.0174
label: catalog number
content: 2006.0174.02
objectType: label: Object Name
content: slide rule
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: plastic (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: paper (case material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: .2 cm x 25 cm x 10 cm; 1/16 in x 9 13/16 in x 3 15/16 in