Object Details
- Description
- This small (4-inch) one-sided rule is bamboo with a metal backing, entirely covered with white celluloid. A magnifying glass indicator has a metal frame. There are A and D scales on the base. The slide has B and C scales on one side and S, L, and T scales on the other side. The lower edge of the base has a scale of centimeters divided to millimeters. The upper edge of the base has a scale of inches divided to thirty-seconds of an inch.
- The D scale is marked at each end: Quot (/) +1; Prod (/) -1. The back of the slide rule is marked: "SUN" (between two drawings of the sun); HEMMI; MADE IN JAPAN. A brown leather case is stamped in gold on the flap: BAMBOO (/) SLIDE RULE (/) "SUN" (between two drawings of the sun) (/) HEMMI. Written in pen inside the flap is: BOB YINGLING.
- According to the donor, a colleague used this slide rule in a training program at the American Brass Company Division of Anaconda Mining Company in Waterbury, Conn., in the 1940s. He used it for such problems as calculating the weight of samples from their volume and density.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
- maker
- SUN HEMMI JAPAN CF
- date made
- ca 1940
- Credit Line
- Gift of William E. Gilbert
- Physical Description
- celluloid (laminate material)
- bamboo (overall material)
- leather (case material)
- Measurements
- overall: 1.6 cm x 13.1 cm x 3.4 cm; 5/8 in x 5 3/16 in x 1 5/16 in
- Object Name
- calculating rule
- slide rule
