Pamphlet, Hydraulic Tables and Other Data

Description:

Manufacturers compiled and distributed tables for designers who would use their products. This 32-page pamphlet, published in August, 1931, by the Southwark Foundry and Machine Company Division of the Baldwin-Southwark Corporation, brought together data “of particular interest and value” to those “engaged in the use of hydraulic equipment - particularly those structures involving the use of hydraulic pressures for load-producing purposes.”

Tables included give:

1. the circumferences and areas of circles of diameters ranging from 1/64” to 98.”

2. conversions between standard and metric units of length, area, volume, velocity, weight, pressure, and power.

3. the capacities of hydraulic rams

3. plunger displacements

4. wire and sheet metal gauges

5. properties of steel pipes and bolts

6. the specific gravity of diverse substances

7. strength of diverse materials

8. friction losses in fluid flow

9. properties of various cross sections of pipe

10. properties of diverse beams

11. methods of finding moments of inertia

12. trigonometric formulae

13. properties of springs

14. graphs for estimating the weights of solid and hollow cylinders.

Date Made: 1931

Maker: Baldwin-Southwark Corporation

Location: Currently not on view

Subject: Mathematics

Subject:

See more items in: Medicine and Science: Mathematics, Mathematical Charts and Tables, Science & Mathematics

Exhibition:

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Credit Line: Gift of Oscar W. Richards

Data Source: National Museum of American History

Id Number: 1979.3074.07Nonaccession Number: 1979.3074Catalog Number: 1979.3074.07

Object Name: mathematical tables

Physical Description: paper (overall material)Measurements: overall: .5 cm x 21.7 cm x 28 cm; 3/16 in x 8 17/32 in x 11 1/32 in

Guid: http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746a5-1bc7-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa

Record Id: nmah_692578

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