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- OBJECT TYPE
- MANNHEIM/VECTOR HYPERBOLIC LOG
- DATE
- 1948
- ARTIFACT NUMBER
- 1990.0220.001
- MANUFACTURER
- Pickett & Eckel Inc.
- MODEL
- 4
- LOCATION
- Alhambra, California, United States of America
More Information
General Information
- Serial #
- 243
- Part Number
- 1
- Total Parts
- 1
- AKA
- N/A
- Patents
- N/A
- General Description
- NON-FERROUS METAL/ SYNTHETIC RUNNER/ SYNTHETIC COVERING/ LEATHER CASE
Dimensions
Note: These reflect the general size for storage and are not necessarily representative of the object's true dimensions.
- Length
- 32.0 cm
- Width
- 7.7 cm
- Height
- 2.0 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
- Pickett Eckel
- Country
- United States of America
- State/Province
- California
- City
- Alhambra
Context
- Country
- Unknown
- State/Province
- Unknown
- Period
- Unknown
- Canada
-
Unknown - Function
-
Unknown - Technical
-
Unknown - Area Notes
-
Unknown
Details
- Markings
- INCISED BROWN SCALE & NUMBERS/ BROWN LETTERING ON EACH END OF SLIDE READING: `MODEL NO.4/ VECTOR HYPERBOLIC/ LOG LOG', WITH `Pickett' TRIANGULAR LOGO & `243' ON ONE SIDE, & ON OTHER SIDE: `INTERNATIONAL & U.S.A./ COPYRIGHT 1947/ R.C. PICKETT & A.F. ECKEL, ALHAMBRA, CALIF., U.S.A.' & `PATENTS PENDING/ MADE IN U.S.A./ PICKETT & ECKEL/ ALHAMBRA,..../ 254...'/ INCISED `MARKHAM' ON ONE END OF FRAME/ BLACK INK STAMP ON CASE READING `P. DE L./ MARKHAM/ 30490 RCAF'/ CASE STAMPED `Pickett' IN SCRIPT ON ONE SIDE & `TOP GRAIN/ CONHIDE' ON OTHER
- Missing
- APPEARS COMPLETE
- Finish
- METALLIC FRAME/ WHITE RULES/ COLOURLESS TRANSPARENT RUBBER/ BROWN LEATHER
- Decoration
- N/A
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Pickett & Eckel Inc., Slide rule, circa 1948, Artifact no. 1990.0220, Ingenium – Canada’s Museums of Science and Innovation, http://collections.ingeniumcanada.org/en/id/1990.0220.001/
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