Slide Chart, MM Calculator
date: label: date made
content: 1963
name: label: maker
content: Multi-Metal Wire Cloth Company
notes: label: Description
content: This slide chart has a plastic sleeve that holds a cardboard slide. One side of the slide has a table giving the properties of various forms of filter cloth and wire cloth. The other side has two graphs.
label: Description
content: The Multi-Metal Wire Cloth Company distributed this plastic slide chart to allow its customers and potential customers to compare the flow rates and particle retention of various forms of woven wire and woven fabric. Results were based on observations carried out at Columbia University. A paper sticker attached to the back of the sleeve gives further details of the calculation.
label: Description
content: A mark on the front of the sleeve reads: MM (/) CALCULATOR. A mark on the back of the sleeve reads: Multi-Metal (/) WIRE CLOTH COMPANY, INC. (/) 1350 GARRISON AVE. (/) NEW YORK 59, NEW YORK (/) PRINTED IN USA COPYRIGHT 1959. The slide and the paper envelope are stamped: SEP 18 1963.
label: Description
content: This object came to the Smithsonian as part of a large collection of trade literature relating to meat processing donated by the Cincinnati Boss Company of Cincinnati, Ohio.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: New York, New York City
topic: label: Subject
content: Mathematics
label: Subject
content: Materials
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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
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Cincinnati Boss Company
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2000.3029.15
label: nonaccession number
content: 2000.3029
label: catalog number
content: 2000.3029.15
objectType: label: Object Name
content: mathematical table
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: paper (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: plastic (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: .1 cm x 21.3 cm x 10.5 cm; 1/32 in x 8 3/8 in x 4 1/8 in