The Keuffel and Esser Co., also known as K&E, was an American drafting instrument and supplies company founded in 1867 by German immigrants Wilhelm J...
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Slide rule (section Roots and powers)
process. Many slide rules have S, T, and ST scales marked with degrees and minutes (e.g. some Keuffel and Esser models (Doric duplex 5" models, for example)...
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The Keuffel and Esser Manufacturing Complex is located in Hoboken, Hudson County, New Jersey, United States. The western concrete building with the four-sided...
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back of the Aristo slide rule. "Slide Rule and Planimeter Sections". K&E Catalog 42nd Edition. Keuffel and Esser. 1954. p. 279. Archived from the original...
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Celluloid (category Film and video technology)
as in Keuffel and Esser rules. Celluloid remains in use for musical instruments, especially accordions and guitars. Celluloid is very robust and easy to...
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1881. The duplex rule was invented by William Cox in 1891, and was produced by Keuffel and Esser Co. of New York. Writing in 1914 on the 300th anniversary...
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Leroy (section Arts and entertainment)
Canadian car manufactured between 1899 and 1904 in Ontario "Leroy", a technical lettering system by the Keuffel and Esser Co. This disambiguation page lists...
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model 1 cost £60 (£545 in 2023) and model 2 was £61.25. In the United States the instrument was marketed by Keuffel and Esser who only supplied model 1. They...
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Hoboken, New Jersey (category Port cities and towns in New Jersey)
of shipbuilding, Hoboken became home to Keuffel and Esser's three-story factory and in 1884, to Tietjen and Lang Drydock (later Todd Shipyards). Well-known...
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templates, or using a small mechanical pantograph referred to by the Keuffel and Esser trademark "Leroy" Modern drawings are lettered with computer-aided...
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Compass (drawing tool) (section Construction and parts)
Ellipse drawing compasses are used to draw ellipse. Compass variants Keuffel & Esser Arrow beam compass set for drafting. 18th-century ellipse-drawing compass...
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MIT Museum (section Building and facilities)
collection of hundreds of slide rules, nomograms, and mechanical calculators. The Keuffel and Esser Company collection, from the slide rule manufacturer...
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became known as Young & Sons. It produced surveying and other precision devices until Keuffel and Esser of New York City acquired the company in 1918. Even...
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F146 Glass field type-E. 6-power, and glass field type-EE, (Navy) [8] F147 Compass, prismatic, M1918, (Keuffel and Esser type) F149 Instrument, Azimuth,...
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Machine is published. July 11 – Keuffel and Esser manufacture the last slide rule in the United States. Imre Lakatos' Proofs and Refutations: the Logic of Mathematical...
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Radio Materiel School (category United States Navy schools and training)
special slide rule for radio calculations that was manufactured and sold by Keuffel and Esser. Starting in the mid-1930s, the potential of another major war...
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Electronics Training Program (category United States Navy schools and training)
Keuffel and Esser. Attachment to contracts signed by Captain Louis E. Denfeld, dated February 2, 1942, between the U.S. Navy Bureau of Navigation and...
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addresses at 139 Fulton Street and 30 Ann Street. Nearby buildings include the Fulton Center to the west; the Keuffel and Esser Company Building to the southeast;...
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complete list of properties and districts listed on the National Register of Historic Places in Hudson County, New Jersey. Latitude and longitude coordinates...
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with an extensive instruction manual, was manufactured and sold commercially by Keuffel and Esser, the primary supplier of engineering slide rules. The...
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William F. Durand (category Fellows of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences)
distances proportional to the logarithms of the values being represented. Keuffel and Esser Company listed logarithmic paper in their general catalog as "Durand's...
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Saunders Hofer, 1850 Federal Census of Rappahannock County, Virginia, Keuffel & Esser Co., Arlington, Virginia Scott Arnold, A Guidebook to Virginia’s Historical...
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A beam compass is a compass with a beam and sliding sockets or cursors for drawing and dividing circles larger than those made by a regular pair of compasses...
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JSTOR 2308082 Wheatley, J. Y. (1908), The polar planimeter, New York: Keuffel & Esser, ISBN 9785878586351 Wikisource has the text of the 1911 Encyclopædia...
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Fulton–Nassau Historic District (category Late 19th and Early 20th Century American Movements architecture)
New York City designated landmarks, including 63 Nassau Street, the Keuffel & Esser Company Building, the Bennett Building, the Corbin Building, the Temple...
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23 Wall Street (redirect from J.P. Morgan and Co. Building)
southeast corner of Wall Street and Broad Street. Designed by Trowbridge & Livingston in the neoclassical style and constructed from 1913 to 1914, it...
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Partners LLP and Snøhetta were selected as the original designers, but plans were repeatedly stalled and later scrapped. Joshua Ramus and Davis Brody Bond...
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Charging Bull (category Guerilla art and hacking art)
standing 11 feet (3.4 m) tall and measuring 16 feet (4.9 m) long, depicts a bull, the symbol of financial optimism and prosperity. Charging Bull is a...
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One World Trade Center, also known as One WTC and Freedom Tower, is the main building of the rebuilt World Trade Center complex in Lower Manhattan, New...
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Puckett, James (22 November 2016). "Draughtsman's Alphabets published by Keuffel & Esser". dailytypespecimen. Retrieved 10 November 2017. Morison, Stanley....
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