Box for Pickett All Metal Slide Rule
date: label: date made
content: ca 1970
name: label: maker
content: Pickett Industries
notes: label: Description
content: By the 1960s, when this cardboard box was made, slide rules were an established symbol of the technical education of young Americans. They came with considerable packaging. This box, made by the American firm of Pickett, was made for the company’s T-3 powerlog slide rule. The lid boasts that “Pickett rules have been aboard (/) 5 Apollo missions”.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
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 Terry M. Sachs
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1995.3023.08
label: nonaccession number
content: 1995.3023
label: catalog number
content: 1995.3023.08
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Box
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: paper (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 5 cm x 35 cm x 17.5 cm; 1 31/32 in x 13 25/32 in x 6 7/8 in