Slide rule
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- OBJECT TYPE
- MANNHEIM/STUDENT
- DATE
- 1960–1969
- ARTIFACT NUMBER
- 1994.0190.001
- MANUFACTURER
- STERLING PLASTIC CO.
- MODEL
- Unknown
- LOCATION
- Mountainside, New Jersey, United States of America
More Information
General Information
- Serial #
- N/A
- Part Number
- 1
- Total Parts
- 1
- AKA
- N/A
- Patents
- N/A
- General Description
- SYNTHETIC (CELLULOID) SLIDE RULE/ PLASTIC CASE
Dimensions
Note: These reflect the general size for storage and are not necessarily representative of the object's true dimensions.
- Length
- 36.2 cm
- Width
- 5.3 cm
- Height
- 1.0 cm
- Thickness
- N/A
- Weight
- N/A
- Diameter
- N/A
- Volume
- N/A
Lexicon
- Group
- Mathematics
- Category
- Calculating devices
- Sub-Category
- N/A
Manufacturer
- AKA
- STERLING
- Country
- United States of America
- State/Province
- New Jersey
- City
- Mountainside
Context
- Country
- Canada
- State/Province
- Quebec
- Period
- 1960'S - 1970'S
- Canada
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AN EXAMPLE OF A SLIDE RULE USED BY CANADIAN STUDENTS. IT WAS RECEIVED BY THE DONOR AS A GIFT & WAS USED BY HER HIGH SCHOOL. - Function
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A MECHANICAL ANALOG COMPUTING DEVICE USED FOR RAPID CALCULATIONS SUCH AS MULTIPLICATION, DIVISION, PROPORTION, SQUARE & CUBE ROOT PROBLEMS, SINE, TANGENT, & LOGARITHMS. - Technical
-
AN EXAMPLE OF A 1960'S SLIDE RULE. SLIDE RULES WERE MUCH USED CALCULATING DEVICES UNTIL THEY WERE SUPERCEDED BY ELECTRONIC CALCULATORS IN THE 1970'S. THE DONOR USED THIS ONE UNTIL SHE RECEIVED A CALCULATOR IN THE 1970'S. - Area Notes
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Unknown
Details
- Markings
- BLACK LETTERING READING '(SP) PRECISION', 'STERLING SLIDE RULE', 'MADE IN U.S.A.'/ BLACK & RED SCALES & NUMBERING
- Missing
- None apparent.
- Finish
- WHITE SLIDE RULE WITHCOLOURLESS TRANSPARENT CURSOR/ BLUE & COLOURLESS TRANSPARENT PLASTIC CASE
- Decoration
- N/A
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STERLING PLASTIC CO., Slide rule, between 1960–1969, Artifact no. 1994.0190, Ingenium – Canada’s Museums of Science and Innovation, http://collection.ingeniumcanada.org/en/id/1994.0190.001/
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