Table of Decimal equivalents, the L. S. Starrett Co.
date: label: date made
content: 1920-1960
name: label: maker
content: The L. S. Starrett Co.
notes: label: Description
content: 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.
label: Description
content: 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.
label: Description
content: This table was found in the collections of what was then the Division of Work and Industry at the National Museum of American History.
label: Description
content: Compare 1988.3078.01.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Massachusetts, Athol
topic: label: Subject
content: Mathematics
label: Subject
content: Manufacturing
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content: Medicine and Science: Mathematics
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content: Mathematical Charts and Tables
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content: Science & Mathematics
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content: Measuring & Mapping
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Transfer from Division of Engineering and Industry
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1988.3078.02
label: catalog number
content: 1988.3078.02
label: nonaccession number
content: 1988.3078
objectType: label: Object Name
content: mathematical table
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: plastic (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: .1 cm x 5 cm x 11.2 cm; 1/32 in x 1 31/32 in x 4 13/32 in