Datalizer Universal English/SI Converter Slide Rule
date: label: date made
content: 1976
name: label: maker
content: Datalizer Slide Charts, Incorporated
notes: label: Description
content: This white rectangular cardboard rule is held together with four metal rivets. The front has logarithmic scales for making measurement conversions for length, mass, area, and volume. A chart for converting temperatures runs along the bottom edge. The top is marked: THE NEWS (/) NEW YORK'S PICTURE NEWSPAPER Universal ENGLISH/SI (metric) Datalizer. The bottom is marked: © 1976 <i>datalizer</i> by DATALIZER SLIDE CHARTS, INC., Addison, IL 60101 PRINTED IN U.S.A. FORM NO. EM2.
label: Description
content: The back has charts for converting between cubic meters and cubic feet; gallons and liters; miles and kilometers; inches and centimeters; and fractional inches and millimeters. A table of miscellaneous conversions appears in the center of the back.
label: Description
content: Around 1960 a former employee of the Perry Graf Corporation (see 1979.3074.03) established Datalizer in Addison, a Chicago suburb. The company made this promotional rule during a time of considerable interest in adopting the metric system in the United States. The <i>New York Daily News</i> used the "picture newspaper" slogan between 1920 and 1991.
label: Description
content: References: "Slide Chart Specialists," <i>Datalizer Slide Charts</i>, http://www.datalizer.com/about-us/; Lance Gould, "The Lenses And Legacy Of New York's Picture Newspaper," <i>New York Daily News</i>, January 25, 2002, http://articles.nydailynews.com/2002-01-25/entertainment/18195567_1_photographers-gallery-exhibit-exposed.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Illinois, Addison
topic: label: Subject
content: Mathematics
label: Subject
content: Rule, Calculating
label: Subject
content: Newspaper
label: Subject
content: Conversion Chart
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content: Medicine and Science: Mathematics
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content: Metric System
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content: Science & Mathematics
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content: Slide Rules
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content: Measuring & Mapping
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of John White
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1981.0922.15
label: catalog number
content: 1981.0922.15
label: accession number
content: 1981.0922
objectType: label: Object Name
content: calculating rule
label: Object Name
content: slide rule
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: paper (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: metal (part material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: .2 cm x 20.7 cm x 8.5 cm; 3/32 in x 8 5/32 in x 3 11/32 in