Slide Rule Components, Indicators
name: label: maker
content: Keuffel & Esser Co.
notes: label: Description
content: Keuffel & 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 these. They are indicators for slide rules with a four-sided metal frame and a glass center. One is cracked and taped. The other one is stamped: KEUFFEL&ESSERCo (/) NEW YORK.
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: 1983.3008.15
label: nonaccession number
content: 1983.3008
label: catalog number
content: 1983.3008.15
objectType: label: Object Name
content: calculating rule components, group of
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 1.2 cm x 3 cm x 3 cm; 15/32 in x 1 3/16 in x 1 3/16 in