Three sample lengths of printed "Khaki Kool," Mallinson tradename for a rough finish sport silk: Rough surface crepe fabric woven with warp of tussah silk and weft of tussah loosely twisted with a silk crepe yarn. Selvage width; selvage inscription. Printed with National Park series "Garden of the Gods" design; in three different color combinations (on grounds of white, orange, and mauve). In late 1926 American silk manufacturer H. R. Mallinson & Co. introduced a bold new line of printed silks, twelve landscape designs, each available in from eight to twelve colorways (color combinations) on three different ground fabrics. The designs celebrated America's National Parks - then only a decade old. The designs represented all the usual styles necesssary for making clothing: allover prints, horizontal stripes, checks, a border design, etc. These samples illustrate how strikingly different a single design can appear by changing the colors of the ground and design elements.
In late 1926 American silk manufacturer H.R. Mallinson & Co. introduced a bold new line of printed silks, twelve landscape designs, each available in from eight to twelve colorways (color combinations) on three different ground fabrics. The designs celebrated America's National Parks - then only a decade old. The designs represented all the usual styles necesssary for making clothing: allover prints, horizontal stripes, checks, a border design. This overall design depicts Bridal Veil Falls at Yosemite National Park, on Mallinson's trademark Pussy Willow silk. The firm donated two different colorways of this design, one with a tan ground and one with a green ground. .
Five sample lengths of a printed silk sheer, Mallinson tradename "Indestructible Chiffon Voile". Selvage width; selvage inscription. A sheer, plain weave all silk fabric printed with National Park series "Garden of the Gods" design; samples of five different color combinations (ground color are: peach, grey, blue, green, and orange). In late 1926 American silk manufacturer H.R. Mallinson & Co. introduced a bold new line of printed silks, twelve landscape designs, each available in from eight to twelve colorways (color combinations) on three different ground fabrics. The designs celebrated America's National Parks - then only a decade old. The designs represented all the usual styles necesssary for making clothing: allover prints, horizontal stripes, checks, a border design, etc. These samples illustrate how strikingly different a single design can appear by changing the colors of the ground and design elements.
This set of tables was published by the Project for the Computation of Mathematical Tables (later the Mathematical Tables Project) in New York City. During the 1930s. an agency of the United States government known as the Works Project Administration sought to create jobs for employable workers, Malcolm Morrow, a statistician at the W.P.A.’s Washington, D.C., office, proposed a project that would hire people to compute useful mathematical tables. The program came to be under the sponsorship of Lyman Briggs, the director of the National Bureau of Standards, and operated from 1938 until 1942 in New York City, under the direction of physicist Arnold Lowan, with immediate supervision of the (human) computers by the mathematician Gertrude Blanch.
Not long after the outbreak of World War II in 1941, President Roosevelt ended the W.P.A. The computing work continued in New York, partly as an office of the U.S. Navy and also as part of the U.S. Office of Scientific Research and Development. After the war ended, the two projects were reunited under the National Bureau of Standards. In 1959, the project moved to Washington, D.C. as the Computation Laboratory of the National Bureau of Standards. Some of the staff would work on the SEAC computer built there.
According to the preface to this document, it was one of the first publications of the Project for the Computation of Mathematical Tables. It was proposed at a January, 1938, conference held in Washington, D.C., that was attended by members of the Committee on Bibliography of the Mathematical Tables and Aids to Computation of the National Research Council as well as representatives of the W.P.A. and N.B.S. At the Same time, a committee of the British Association for the Advancement of Science undertook a more extensive project of computing powers of integers. Hence only a small number of mimeographed copies of this W.P.A. table were prepared.
Reference:
David Alan Grier, “Table making for the relief of labour,” in The History of Mathematical Tables: From Sumer to Spreadsheets, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003, pp. 265-292.
According to the preface to this document, it was one of the first publications of the Project for the Computation of Mathematical Tables. It was proposed at a January, 1938, conference held in Washington, D.C., that was attended by members of the Committee on Bibliography of the Mathematical Tables and Aids to Computation of the National Research Council as well as representatives of the W.P.A. and N.B.S. At the Same time, a committee of the British Association for the Advancement of Science undertook a more extensive project of computing powers of integers. Hence only a small number of mimeographed copies of this W.P.A. table were prepared.
This example of the publication was owned by the German- American statistician, mathematician and computer pioneer Carl Hammer (1914-2004).
Reference:
David Alan Grier, “Table making for the relief of labour,” in The History of Mathematical Tables: From Sumer to Spreadsheets, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003, pp. 265-292.
Oval, white glass container with a paper label seal around the perimeter. 1 1/8 oz. Active Ingredients printed on label. "For External Use by Adults"
["Directions for Using Black and White Bleaching Cream" about 1941]
"Nature is constantly replacing the outer layer of normal skin by flaking it off in tiny particles and replacing it with a new layer.
Black and White Bleaching Cream acts in a similar and supplemental manner and may be used in cases where one wishes to hasten exfoliation (peeling off) of the over-pigmented outer skin -- the result of exposure to sun or wind. It acts the same way when applied to freckles ... It is especially useful as a complexion lightener ..."
"Black and White Bleaching Cream is packaged in special, oval-shaped, opal jars so you may easily remove a small quantity of the cream with the fingertips, thereby regulating the amount you wish to apply.'
This rule has a cylindrical hollow brass drum, which is covered with paper printed with 40 A scales. The first A scale runs from 100 to 112; the fortieth runs from 946 to 100 to 105. The paper is also printed in italics on the right side: Patented by Edwin Thatcher [sic], C.E. Nov. 1st 1881. Divided by W. F. Stanley, London, 1882. A wooden handle is attached to each end of the drum, and the drum slides in both directions.
The drum fits inside an open rotating frame to which 20 brass slats are fastened. The slats are lined with cloth and covered with paper. The paper on each slat is printed with two B and two C scales. The first B scale runs from 100 to 112; the fortieth runs from 946 to 100 to 105. The first C scale runs from 100 to 334; the fortieth runs from 308 to 325. The frame is attached to a mahogany base, and the object is housed in a mahogany case. A paper label appears to have been removed from the top of the case.
A paper of directions and rules for operating THACHER'S CALCULATING INSTRUMENT is glued to the top front of the base. A metal tag attached to the top back of the base is engraved: Keuffel & Esser (/) New York. The front right corner of the frame is stamped with numbers: 57 and 35. Presumably one of these is the serial number, but which one is not clear. In either case, the low number and the shape of the frame suggest that this example is the earliest Thacher cylindrical slide rule in the collections. Model 1740 sold for $30.00 in 1887.
Robert B. Steffes of the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics donated this instrument to the Smithsonian in 1970.
See also MA.312866 and 1987.0107.08.
References: Wayne E. Feely, "Thacher Cylindrical Slide Rules," The Chronicle of the Early American Industries Association 50 (1997): 125–127; Catalogue of Keuffel & Esser (New York, 1887), 128. This was the first K&E catalog to list the model 1740.
This illustrated volume has the lengthy but descriptive title A System of Natural Philosophy: In Which the Principles of Mechanics, Hydrostatics,Hydraulics, Pneumatics, Acoustics, Optics, Astronomy, Electricity, and Magnetism are Familiarly Explined and Illustrated by More Than two Hundred Engravings to Which Are Added, Questions for the Examination of the Pupils Designed both the Use of Schools and Academies.The book first appeared in 1830, with reprintings and revisions as late as 1871. The author, John Lee Comstock (1789-1858), was a Connecticut physician who published books on a wide range of scientific topics as well as philosophy and the Greek revolution.
Adventure Comics No. 108 features the Superboy adventure "The Proof of the Proverbs," written by Don C. Cameron and pencilled by John Sikela. Stan Kaye provided the cover art featuring Superboy.
Other stories in the issue include "The Stolen Light," starring Aquaman, the Johnny Quick story "Ghosts in Armor," The Shining Knight in "Trial by Trickery" and "Contest for Champions" featuring Green Arrow.
Action Comics No. 257 features the Superman story "The Reporter of Steel," written by Otto Binder and pencilled by Wayne Boring. The cover art, done by Curt Swan, features Superman in his Clark Kent alias and the villain,Lex Luthor.
The comic also contains the Congo Bill story "The Man-Ape Skin Diver!" and "The Three Magic WIshes!" starring Supergirl.
The character of Superman first flew into action in 1938. The costumed superhero was created by Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster, two Jewish teenagers from Cleveland Ohio, who used, among other things, Classical mythology, philosopher Fredrich Nietzche's concept of the "uber mensch," and the era's popular science fiction and adventure writing, for inspiration.
With his debut in Action Comics #1, Superman became an instant sensation with audiences, inspired by the "Man of Tomorrow's" virtue and heroics at time when the Nation was slowly emerging from the economic catastrophe of the Great Depression and moving closer to World War.
Born on the doomed planet Krypton, Superman was sent to Earth as a child, where our world's yellow sun granted him extraordinary powers such as flight, super-strength, near-invulnerability, as well as other extraordinary abilities including heat and X-Ray vision. As an adult living in the city of Metropolis, the alien, born Kal-El, protects his identity by assuming the persona of Clark Kent, a "mild-mannered" journalist.
Fighting for "Truth and Justice," Superman birthed a cultural fascination with superheroes, and has become one of the most recognizable and influential fictional characters in history. In addition to comic books, the character has been explored in all forms of media, including radio, television, and film, and has been used to promote a variety of successful consumer products, educational initiatives and public service campaigns.