Pamphlet, How to Use Log Log Slide Rules
date: label: date made
content: ca 1962
notes: label: Description
content: American slide rule manufacturers sometimes hired university professors to prepare instruction manuals for their products. Maurice L. Hartung, a professor of education at the University of Chicago, prepared this one for Pickett, Inc. The ninety-five page paperbound volume describes a wide range of scales found on Pickett slide rules. It was copyrighted in 1953.
label: Description
content: The instructions came to the Smithsonian with a Pickett Model N-500-ES slide rule from 1962 or later (see 1999.0096.01).
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: California, Oakland
topic: label: Subject
content: Mathematics
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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 Thomas A. Bair II
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1999.0096.02
label: catalog number
content: 1999.0096.02
label: accession number
content: 1999.0096
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Pamphlet
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: paper (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: .5 cm x 13.5 cm x 21 cm; 3/16 in x 5 5/16 in x 8 9/32 in