Pamphlet, Hydraulic Tables and Other Data
date: label: date made
content: 1931
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content: Baldwin-Southwark Corporation
notes: label: Description
content: Manufacturers compiled and distributed tables for designers who would use their products. This 32-page pamphlet, published in August, 1931, by the Southwark Foundry and Machine Company Division of the Baldwin-Southwark Corporation, brought together data “of particular interest and value” to those “engaged in the use of hydraulic equipment - particularly those structures involving the use of hydraulic pressures for load-producing purposes.”
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content: Tables included give:
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content: 1. the circumferences and areas of circles of diameters ranging from 1/64” to 98.”
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content: 2. conversions between standard and metric units of length, area, volume, velocity, weight, pressure, and power.
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content: 3. the capacities of hydraulic rams
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content: 3. plunger displacements
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content: 4. wire and sheet metal gauges
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content: 5. properties of steel pipes and bolts
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content: 6. the specific gravity of diverse substances
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content: 7. strength of diverse materials
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content: 8. friction losses in fluid flow
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content: 9. properties of various cross sections of pipe
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content: 10. properties of diverse beams
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content: 11. methods of finding moments of inertia
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content: 12. trigonometric formulae
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content: 13. properties of springs
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content: 14. graphs for estimating the weights of solid and hollow cylinders.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
topic: label: Subject
content: Mathematics
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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 Oscar W. Richards
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1979.3074.07
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content: 1979.3074
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content: 1979.3074.07
objectType: label: Object Name
content: mathematical tables
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: paper (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: .5 cm x 21.7 cm x 28 cm; 3/16 in x 8 17/32 in x 11 1/32 in