Book, Société Genèvoise Dividing Engine Data
date: label: date made
content: 1912-1937
notes: label: Description
content: This lab notebook lists the forty-eight circles graduated on the circular dividing engine at the Carnegie Institution of Washington between 1912 and 1937. Thirty-eight of these were done between 1912 and 1916.
label: Description
content: The penciled columns are remarks, the date, the running number, the number of the circle, the weight, the time of start and finish, the temperature at start and finish, the graduation (almost always 30'), the diameter (mostly 102 mm), and the speed (high, medium or low).
label: Description
content: A mark on the cover reads: DiIVIDING ENGINE (/) DATA. Another mark on the cover reads; J.A. WIDNER.
label: Description
content: For the dividing engine, see MA.328870. For documentation about it, see 1987.0036.02 through 1987.0036.16.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: District of Columbia, Washington
topic: label: Subject
content: Mathematics
label: Subject
content: Ruling and Dividing Engines
setName: label: See more items in
content: Medicine and Science: Mathematics
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of the Carnegie Institution of Washington, Department of Terrestrial Magnetism
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1987.0036.16
label: accession number
content: 1987.0036
label: catalog number
content: 1987.0036.16
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Book
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: paper (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 19.2 cm x 24.8 cm; 7 9/16 in x 9 3/4 in