Keuffel & Esser Instructions for 4098 Ever-There Slide Rule
date: label: date made
content: 1932
name: label: maker
content: Keuffel & Esser Co.
notes: label: Description
content: The citation information for this 16-page tissue paper pamphlet is: <i>Instructions for Operating Ever-There Slide Rule No. 4098</i> (New York: Keuffel & Esser, 1932). The pamphlet describes an earlier version of 1989.0325.06. It lists various uses for slide rules and provides detailed drawings and explanations for reading numbers and making calculations on the slide rule. Sample problems are solved in multiplication and division, proportion, squares and square roots, cubes and cube roots, trigonometry, and logarithms.
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content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: New York, New York City
topic: label: Subject
content: Mathematics
label: Subject
content: Rule, Calculating
label: Subject
content: Engineering
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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 William J. Ellenberger
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1981.0933.09
label: accession number
content: 1981.0933
label: catalog number
content: 1981.0933.09
objectType: label: Object Name
content: pamphlet
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: paper (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 22.2 cm x 14.5 cm; 8 3/4 in x 5 23/32 in