Pamphlet, A Revised Key to Gould's Patent Artihmetical Frame
date: label: date made
content: 1879
name: label: maker
content: Bugbee, H. K.
notes: label: Description
content: This 56-page paper pamphlet, copyrighted in 1881, has the full title <I>A Revised Key to Gould's Patent Arithmetical Frame; Containing Much New and Valuable Matter, Including Common Fractions, Percentage, and the Metric System</I>. It has a variety of problems in addition, subtraction, multiplication, division and decimal fractions that could be set up on a teaching device called Gould's patent arithmetical frame, along with answers. A section of the pamphlet discusses the metric system, and a variety of other arithmetic problems are included.
label: Description
content: On the cover, Gould’s address is given as 72 Murray St., New York. This address is crossed out and Chatham, N.J., is written in in ink.
label: Description
content: For a related object, see 1994.0038.01. For related correspondence, see 1994.0038.03.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: New York, New York City
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: Arithmetic Teaching
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Joel S. and D. Hope Pratt
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1994.0038.02
label: accession number
content: 1994.0038
label: catalog number
content: 1994.0038.02
objectType: label: Object Name
content: pamphlet
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: paper (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: .2 cm x 13.1 cm x 18.7 cm; 3/32 in x 5 5/32 in x 7 3/8 in