Pickett Trig Slide Rule Instruction Manual
date: label: date made
content: 1960
name: label: publisher
content: Pickett Industries
label: author
content: Hartung, Maurice L.
notes: label: Description
content: This 64-page booklet was received with 1993.0559.01. Its citation information is: Maurice L. Hartung, <i>How to Use . . . Trig Slide Rules</i> (Chicago: Pickett & Eckel Inc., 1960). It sold separately for fifty cents. Hartung was the University of Chicago professor who was closely associated with Pickett & Eckel in the company's early years and who wrote several instruction manuals for the firm's slide rules.
label: Description
content: The booklet discusses slide rule operation, use of certain special scales, applications of trigonometry, and the principles underlying slide rules. Hartung focused on the operations of the instrument rather than on mathematical theory. There are problem sets at the end of each section, with answers in the back of the manual, and a few sets of "practical" (word) problems. Another copy of the booklet is scanned at http://sliderulemuseum.com/Manuals/M104_Pickett_HowToUseTrig_1960.pdf.
label: Description
content: Reference: "Maurice Leslie Hartung," <i>Mathematics Genealogy Project</i>, http://www.genealogy.math.ndsu.nodak.edu/id.php?id=7964. Hartung received a life achievement award from the Illinois Council of Teachers of Mathematics in 1977, http://ictm.org/ictmawards/lifeachievement.html.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Illinois, Chicago
topic: label: Subject
content: Mathematics
label: Subject
content: Rule, Calculating
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content: Medicine and Science: Mathematics
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content: Science & Mathematics
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content: Trigonometry
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content: Slide Rules
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of D. L. Leary
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1993.0559.01.01
label: accession number
content: 1993.0559
label: catalog number
content: 1993.0559.01.01
objectType: label: Object Name
content: pamphlet
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: paper (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 21.3 cm x 13.6 cm; 8 3/8 in x 5 11/32 in