Object Details
- Description
- The citation information for this eighteen-page booklet is: How to Use a Slide Rule (Chicago: Eugene Dietzgen Co., 1942). After a description of the features of the slide rules sold by Dietzgen, the booklet gives a tour of the slide rule for beginners. Instructions are provided for reading a basic set of Mannheim scales, such as those on MA.335270. Sample problems in multiplication, division, square roots, proportion, and trigonometry are solved. Additional scales, such as K and CI, are briefly described.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
- maker
- Eugene Dietzgen Company
- date made
- 1942
- Credit Line
- Gift of William J. Ellenberger
- Physical Description
- paper (overall material)
- Measurements
- overall: 22.2 cm x 14.4 cm; 8 3/4 in x 5 21/32 in
- Object Name
- booklet
