Slide Rule Component, Indicator
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 this one. It is an indicator for a two-sided slide rule with two glass plates, a metal frame in two pieces, and four screws to hold the everything together.
label: Description
content: The glass is cracked.
label: Description
content: A mark on one end reads: KEUFFEL&ESSER CO. (/) NEW YORK. A mark on the other end reads: PAT APPL'FOR.
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: 1983.3008.14
label: nonaccession number
content: 1983.3008
label: catalog number
content: 1983.3008.14
objectType: label: Object Name
content: calculating rule component
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 1.2 cm x 3.2 cm x 5.2 cm; 15/32 in x 1 1/4 in x 2 1/16 in