Slide Chart, Slide Selector for Elastic Machinery Steels
- Description
- This slide chart advertises the properties of the ELASTUF machinery steels manufactured by Beals, McCarthy & Rogers, Incorporated, of Buffalo, New York. It consists of a paper envelope with metal rivets and a paper slide. Lining up an arrow on the slide with a type of steel listed along the top of the front reveals in a window of the envelope a general description of the properties of the steel. The other side of a chart shows the physical properties of that type of steel (its tensile strength, yield point, elongation and reduction) for different bar sizes.
- A mark along the bottom right of the back reads: COPYRIGHT 1947 BEALS, McCARTHY & ROGERS, INC. A mark on the slide reads: MANUFACTURED BY (/) GRAPHIC CALCULATOR CO. (/) CHICAGO 5, ILL. (/) MADE IN U.S.A.
- For other products of Graphic Calculator Company, see 2000.3029.02 and 2000.3029.13.
- Graphic Calculator Company was a slide rule and slide chart manufacturing and design company founded in Chicago in 1940 by Capron R. Gulbransen, and apparently still in business at the time of Gulbransen’s death in 1969. By 1965, the firm had moved to Barrington, Illinois.
- Reference:
- Obituaries, Chicago Tribune, August 11, 1969, p. A6
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Object Name
- mathematical table
- date made
- 1947
- maker
- Beals-McCarthy & Rogers
- Physical Description
- paper (overall material)
- Measurements
- overall: .3 cm x 23.5 cm x 9.9 cm; 1/8 in x 9 1/4 in x 3 29/32 in
- place made
- United States: New York, Rochester
- ID Number
- 1988.3076.02
- catalog number
- 1988.3076.02
- nonaccession number
- 1988.3076
- subject
- Science & Mathematics
- Mathematical Charts and Tables
- Mathematics
- Manufacturing
- See more items in
- Medicine and Science: Mathematics
- Mathematical Charts and Tables
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History, Kenneth E. Behring Center
- Credit Line
- Gift of I. Bernard Cohen
- Additional Media
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