Slide rules
Subject
Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
Scope Note: Manually operated calculators generally consisting of a rule and a medial slide, both graduated, usually with logarithmic scales.
Found in 8 Collections and/or Records:
Collection of Purdue Astronaut slide rules
Collection — Box 8 items
Identifier: MSA 254
Scope and Contents
Slide rules of six Purdue alumni astronauts: Neil Armstrong, Roy Bridges, Eugene Cernan, Richard Covey, Guy Gardner, and Jerry Ross.
Dates:
Other: undated
Jerome M. Goldman papers
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSF 461
Scope and Contents
The Jerome Goldman papers document Goldman's career as a Purdue University student in Aeronautical Engineering, his service in the United States Army Air Corp and his work afterwards as a pilot for United Air Lines, along with his key role in establishing Purdue Aeronautics Corporation and Purdue Air Lines as chief pilot, director of operations, and later vice president for operations and maintenance. Also included are papers from his work with International Learning Systems, the Federal...
Dates:
1941 - 1972; Other: Majority of material found within 1965 - 1972
Leilich family slide rule
Unprocessed Material — Box Communal Accessions 25
Identifier: 20180904
Dates:
1936 - 1962
Robert Lee Matthews collection
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSA 167
Scope and Contents
The Robert Lee Matthews collection documents Matthews' time as a student at Coyne Trade and Engineer School and at Purdue and his alumni relations with Purdue. The collection includes personal records and artifacts, correspondence, and photographs.
Dates:
1909 - 1969; Majority of material found within 1923 - 1953
M.S. Webster slide rule and booklets
Unprocessed Material — Box Communal Accessions 62
Identifier: 20121022.1
Dates:
1918 - 1928
Neil A. Armstrong Student Slide Rule
Unprocessed Material — Box 1
Identifier: 2023-066
Dates:
circa 1948
Ralph D. Hawkins, Jr. slide rule
Unprocessed Material — Box Communal Accessions 44
Identifier: 20121022.2
Dates:
1946
Miller J. Tonkel papers
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSA 15
Abstract
Photographs, certificates, and artifacts documenting Miller J. Tonkel’s time at Purdue University in the early 1940s.
Dates:
1939 - 1997; Majority of material found within 1939 - 1942