Mathematical Table, Decimal Equivalents of Parts of an Inch
date: label: date made
content: 1943
name: label: maker
content: Brown & Sharpe Manufacturing Company
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 blue. 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 a small drawing that shows the wooden building occupied by Brown & Sharpe Manufacturing Company of Providence, Rhode Island, in 1848. It also shows the plant at the time the table was distributed, when it occupied 33 acres.
label: Description
content: A mark on the back of the table reads: FORM 93 M.M.T. 7-43:100. Another mark reads: PRINTED IN U. S. A. This mark suggests that the card dates from 1943.
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 1988.3078.02.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Rhode Island, Providence
topic: label: Subject
content: Mathematics
label: Subject
content: Manufacturing
setName: label: See more items in
content: Medicine and Science: Mathematics
label: See more items in
content: Mathematical Charts and Tables
label: See more items in
content: Science & Mathematics
label: See more items in
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: 1988.3078.01
label: catalog number
content: 1988.3078.01
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