Mathematical Table, Decimal Equivalents of Parts of an Inch
- Description
- Companies seeking to provide customers with advertisements they might consult repeatedly sometimes distributed convenient mathematical tables. This is an example of one of these. The small white plastic card has figures printed in blue. The table gives decimal equivalents of parts of an inch ranging from 1/64” to 1” by sixty-fourth inch increments.
- The other side of the card has a small drawing that shows the wooden building occupied by Brown & Sharpe Manufacturing Company of Providence, Rhode Island, in 1848. It also shows the plant at the time the table was distributed, when it occupied 33 acres.
- A mark on the back of the table reads: FORM 93 M.M.T. 7-43:100. Another mark reads: PRINTED IN U. S. A. This mark suggests that the card dates from 1943.
- This table was found in the collections of what was then the Division of Work and Industry at the National Museum of American History.
- Compare 1988.3078.02.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Object Name
- mathematical table
- date made
- 1943
- maker
- Brown & Sharpe Manufacturing Company
- Physical Description
- plastic (overall material)
- Measurements
- overall: .1 cm x 5 cm x 11.2 cm; 1/32 in x 1 31/32 in x 4 13/32 in
- place made
- United States: Rhode Island, Providence
- ID Number
- 1988.3078.01
- catalog number
- 1988.3078.01
- nonaccession number
- 1988.3078
- subject
- Science & Mathematics
- Mathematical Charts and Tables
- Mathematics
- Manufacturing
- Measuring & Mapping
- See more items in
- Medicine and Science: Mathematics
- Mathematical Charts and Tables
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History, Kenneth E. Behring Center
- Additional Media
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