Slide Rule Component, Base Piece
name: label: maker
content: Keuffel & Esser Co.
notes: label: Description
content: 052Keuffel & 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 this one. The wooden rod has a groove along one side and white plastic inset along opposite side. White plastic layers coat the top and bottom, and there is inset whit plastic along one side edge. The other side edge is grooved. The object is marked with a short pencil line near one end. It also is stamped: 053 near the pencil line. It has no scales.
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: 1983.3008.23
label: nonaccession number
content: 1983.3008
label: catalog number
content: 1983.3008.23
objectType: label: Object Name
content: calculating rule component
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: .6 cm x 30.4 cm x 1.4 cm; 1/4 in x 11 31/32 in x 9/16 in