I recently acquired a book of airline poster art, "The Art of the Airways" by Geza Szurovy. Toward the end, on page 175, there is a Delta Air Lines poster advertising travel to Detroit, showing an artist's conception of an advanced car design on a drawing pad, surrounded by drafting instruments: a pencil, a triangle, a French- curve protractor, and a slide rule, which is easily recognizable as an Acu-Math 400.
No date is given for the poster, alas, but a variety of indicators (including, obviously, the slide rule itself) suggest it dates to the late 1970s.
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