Two (2) Dietzgen 1798 Dempster RotaRule Model AA 50-Inch Pocket Slide Rulers, designed and manufactured by Jack Dempster, Berkeley, California, sold by Eugene Dietzgen Company, Distributors, Chicago, New York. Comprised of two-sided round white plastic, front scales: K A D ( C CI CIF S CS ST T CT G B F/i ), back scales: […]
Lot 640: 4 Keuffel & Esser Slide Rules, incl. 4105 Webb's Stadia rule
Four (4) Keuffel & Esser (K&E) slide rulers, including one (1) 4105 Webb's Stadia rule, one (1) Reymond Leather Calculator, and two (2) Merchant Desktop models. 1st item: 4105 Webb's Stadia rule, designed by Walter Loring Webb. Comprised of a wooden cylinder covered with paper scales, wooden handles at the ends of the cylinder, and […]
Lot 637: K&E 4015 Fuller's Spiral Cylindrical Slide Rule
Keuffel & Esser (K&E) 4015 Fuller's Spiral Cylindrical Slide Rule, Model 1, serial number 1948. Composed of an exterior wooden movable cylinder with two brass rings lined with felt over a longer interior wooden cylinder, both covered with paper and marked with decimal, conversion, sine tables, and a logarithmic scale graduated into 7,250 parts, two […]
Lot 633: Large NASA Related Archive inc. Photographs, Log Book
Large NASA-Space Race era archive of material related to Colonel Michael J. Vaccaro, director of administration of the Marshall Space Flight Center of Huntsville, Alabama, an important figure in the pioneering of human space exploration, circa 1951 through 1971. In 1966, Vaccaro, then an aerospace design engineer, became in his words a "Human Guinea Pig" […]
Lot 634: Trippensee Planetarium Co. Tellurian Model + Howard Miller World Map
Trippensee Planetarium Co. Tellurian Model, Howard Miller Lighted World Map Electric Clock, 2 items total. 1st item: Trippensee Planetarium Company, Saginaw, Michigan, geared Tellurian model, manufactured by the George F. Cram Company. Comprised of painted wood or dense plastic globes representing the Earth, Moon, and Venus affixed to metal rod arms that revolve around a […]
Lot 635: 2 Scientific Advertising Displays, Post and K & E
Two (2) Scientific Advertising Displays, Post and Keuffel & Esser. 1st item: Vintage Frederick Post Slide Rule Store Advertising Display. This rotating counter display measures 19" tall, and base measures 10 1/4" in diameter. Included are 8 slide rules, all attached by chains to the display. Rules include: 1) 10" Universal rule 1452W, 2) Versatrig […]
Lot 630: 7 WWII Propaganda posters
Seven (7) World War II United States propaganda posters by artists including Anton Otto Fischer, Mead Schaeffer, Koerner, and Steve Broder. 1st item: Poster depicts gray weapon barrels, wrapped in the full-color national flags of United Nations members, firing into a bright yellow and orange explosion in the upper right corner. Text at top and […]
Lot 631: 12 WWII Propaganda posters inc John Atherton
Twelve (12) World War II United States propaganda posters by artists including John Atherton and Steve Broder. 1st item: Poster depicts a male soldier wearing a green helmet looking up while raising a United States flag on a pole. Text, in white across bottom left reads "To Have and to Hold!" and in large, red […]
Lot 632: 4 WWII Propaganda Posters inc. Lawrence Beall Smith
Four (4) World War II United States war bonds propaganda posters by artists including Allen Saalburg and Lawrence Beall Smith. 1st item: Poster titled "Don't Let That Shadow Touch Them – Buy War Bonds" depicting three children playing in a green meadow with fearful looks and a swastika-shaped shadow on the ground around them. Artist's […]
Lot 627: 15 WWII Propaganda posters
Fifteen (15) World War II United States propaganda posters. 1st item: Poster depicts an illustration of a man with a scruffy beard, wearing a gray cap, standing in polka-dot boxer shorts, with a sleeved doctor's arm stretches a stethoscope to his chest to listen to his heartbeat, against a royal blue background. At the bottom […]