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- OBJECT TYPE
- SPECIAL PURPOSE/CIRCULAR
- DATE
- 1958
- ARTIFACT NUMBER
- 2003.0187.001
- MANUFACTURER
- RAND CORP.
- MODEL
- ROCKET PERFORMANCE COMPUTER
- LOCATION
- Santa Monica, California, 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
- 3 PLASTIC DISKS/ METAL SPINDLE
Dimensions
Note: These reflect the general size for storage and are not necessarily representative of the object's true dimensions.
- Length
- N/A
- Width
- 10.2 cm
- Height
- N/A
- Thickness
- N/A
- Weight
- N/A
- Diameter
- N/A
- Volume
- N/A
Lexicon
- Group
- Space Technology
- Category
- Miscellaneous
- Sub-Category
- N/A
Manufacturer
- AKA
- RAND
- Country
- United States of America
- State/Province
- California
- City
- Santa Monica
Context
- Country
- Canada
- State/Province
- Ontario
- Period
- LATE 1950S+
- Canada
-
AMERICAN DESIGNED & MADE SLIDE RULE, THIS EXAMPLE PROBABLY OWNED BY ROGER EATON, WHO WAS VOLUNTEER & EDUCATOR AT CSTM IN MID-1990S, BECAUSE HIS NAME IS ON COVER OF INSTRUCTIONBOOKLET. - Function
-
DEVICE USED TO CALCULATE SINGLE-STAGE ROCKET PERFORMANCE, INCLUDING SUM OF BURNOUT VELOCITY & VELOCITY LOST, SPECIFIC IMPULSE & % FUEL (RATIO OF FUEL WEIGHT TO GROSS WEIGHT) [REF.1]. - Technical
-
EXAMPLE OF SPECIALIZED SLIDE RULE USED TO CALCULATE SINGLE-STAGE ROCKET PERFORMANCE, CONSISTING OF THREE CONCENTRIC PLASTIC DISKS. - Area Notes
-
Unknown
Details
- Markings
- BLACK LETTERING ON UPPER DISK READS "The [SCRIPT] RAND Corp. [SCRIPT]/ ROCKET PERFORMANCE COMPUTER" & "(C) 1959 (EHS); BLACK SCALES & NUMBERING ON ALL DISKS/ BLUE LETTERING ON FRONT COVER OF MANUAL READS "THE ROCKET PERFORMANCE COMPUTER/ E.H. SHARKEY/ RM-2300-RC/ December 8, 1958/ THE RAND CORPORATION/ SANTA MONICA CALIFORNIA"; SAME LETTERING IN BLACK ON TITLE PAGE WITH Copyright 1959 The RAND Corporation"; BLACK HANDWRITTEN LETTERING ON COVER READS "Roger S. Eaton"
- Missing
- APPEARS COMPLETE
- Finish
- OFF-WHITE LOWERMOST DISK/ LIGHT GREY MIDDLE DISK/ COLOURLESS TRANSPARENT UPPERMOST DISK
- Decoration
- N/A
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RAND CORP., Slide rule, after 1958, Artifact no. 2003.0187, Ingenium – Canada’s Museums of Science and Innovation, http://collection.ingeniumcanada.org/en/id/2003.0187.001/
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