Object Details
maker
The L. S. Starrett Co.
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 black. 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 three small drawings that show products of the L. S. Starrett Co. of Athol, Massachusetts. A mark on that side reads: THE TOOLS MECHANICS BUY (/) STANDARD FOR (/) ACCURACY, WORKMANSHIP, DESIGN, FINISH. A mark on the side of the card with the table indicates that it was made by Sanders Manufacturing Company of Nashville, Tennesee. That company has been in business since 1919.
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 1988.3078.01.
Location
Currently not on view
Credit Line
Transfer from Division of Engineering and Industry
date made
1920-1960
ID Number
1988.3078.02
catalog number
1988.3078.02
nonaccession number
1988.3078
Object Name
mathematical table
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: Massachusetts, Athol
See more items in
Medicine and Science: Mathematics
Mathematical Charts and Tables
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Data Source
National Museum of American History
Subject
Mathematics
Manufacturing
Link to Original Record
Record ID
nmah_1213742