Object Details
maker
Illinois Tool Works Inc.
Description
In the mid-twentieth century, American tool manufacturers sometimes distributed trigonometry tables that included advertisements for their products. This small paper pamphlet includes definitions of the sine, cosine, tangent, cotangent, secant, and cosecant as well as formulas for finding the length of sides for right-angled and oblique triangles when different angles and sides are known. It then gives tables to five places of values of the six trigonometric functions mentioned, as well as a table of decimal equivalents. In addition to this material, the pamphlet has a section on involute functions that includes tables and formulas for spur and helical gears.
Also shown are precision metal cutting tools manufactured by Illinois Tool and Instrument, a division of Illinois Tool Works, Inc.
Location
Currently not on view
Credit Line
Gift of Elton L. Howe
date made
1969
ID Number
1989.3123.02
catalog number
1989.3123.02
nonaccession number
1989.3123
Object Name
pamphlet
Physical Description
paper (overall material)
Measurements
overall: .5 cm x 7.5 cm x 16.5 cm; 3/16 in x 2 15/16 in x 6 1/2 in
place made
United States: Illinois, Chicago
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Medicine and Science: Mathematics
Trigonometry
Science & Mathematics
Data Source
National Museum of American History
Subject
Mathematics
Link to Original Record
Record ID
nmah_1802753