Slide rule
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- OBJECT TYPE
- special purpose/circular/radio transmission line
- DATE
- 1944
- ARTIFACT NUMBER
- 2005.0084.001
- MANUFACTURER
- Emeloid Co. Inc.
- MODEL
- Transmission Line Calculator
- LOCATION
- Hillside, 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 upper & lower disks and rule/ metal spindle
Dimensions
Note: These reflect the general size for storage and are not necessarily representative of the object's true dimensions.
- Length
- 24.4 cm
- Width
- 23.0 cm
- Height
- N/A
- Thickness
- N/A
- Weight
- N/A
- Diameter
- N/A
- Volume
- N/A
Lexicon
- Group
- Mathematics
- Category
- Calculating devices
- Sub-Category
- N/A
Manufacturer
- AKA
- Emeloid
- Country
- United States of America
- State/Province
- New Jersey
- City
- Hillside
Context
- Country
- Canada
- State/Province
- Unknown
- Period
- after 1944 +
- Canada
-
An American made manual calculating device used by a Canadian electronics engineer in the course of his work. The previous owner of this calculating device was Mr. Bob Bennett, who was born in 1920 in Fort William, Ontario. He attended McGill University, graduating in 1942 with a degree in electrical engineering. During WWII he was in the Signal Corps, stationed in Ottawa from 1942-1946, and was involved in radio design and development. In 1946 Mr. Bennett joined the Canadian Pacific Railway but rejoined the Army in 1947 and remained until 1960 working in radio telecommunication research and development. From 1960 to 1979 Mr. Bennett worked in the Public Service in electronics and telecommunication engineering, largely with D&D. - Function
-
A calculating device used to determine impedance of a transmission line. - Technical
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An example of a specialized slide rule which relates the series components of impedance at any position along an open-wire or coaxial transmission line to the impedance at any other point, the standing wave amplitude ratio [SWR], and the attenuation. - Area Notes
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Unknown
Details
- Markings
- black lettering on back reads 'Refer to "Transmission Line Calculator"/ by P.H. Smith, Bell Telephone Laboratories/ Jan. 1939 and Jan. 1944 Electronics/ THE EMELOID CO., INC./ HILLSIDE 5, N.J.' with instructions for use and examples/ black lettering an d markings on front read 'WAVELENGTHS TOWARD GENERATOR' and 'WAVELENGTHS TOWARD LOAD' on lower disk and 'ANGLE OF REFLECTION COEFFICIENT IN DEGREES', 'POSITIVE REACTANCE COMPONENT' and 'NEGATIVE REACTANCE COMPONENT' on upper disk/ red lettering and markings on rule reads 'VOLTAGE OR CURRENT. LIMITS RATIO' and 'ATTENUATION/ DISSIPATION REFLECTION'
- Missing
- appears complete
- Finish
- white upper and lower disks/ colourless, transparent rule
- Decoration
- N/A
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Emeloid Co. Inc., Slide rule, after 1944, Artifact no. 2005.0084, Ingenium – Canada’s Museums of Science and Innovation, http://collection.ingeniumcanada.org/en/id/2005.0084.001/
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