Wizard Fire Stream Calculator Slide Rule
date: label: date made
content: 1933
name: label: maker
content: Adams, Bertram
notes: label: Description
content: This rule has a rectangular wooden base, a wooden slide, and a metal runner. The scales and instructions are on paper pasted to the left side of the base, both sides of the slide, the base underneath the slide, and the runner. Given the pump pressure, hose length, and nozzle size, one can find nozzle pressure, gallons of water flowing through the nozzle per minute, and the effective reach of the stream emerging from a fire hose. The slide is marked: THE (/) WIZARD (/) FIRE (/) STREAM (/) CALCULATOR. The bottom of the base is marked: COPYRIGHT 1933 BERTRAM E. ADAMS BROOKLINE MASS. A sticker on the back of the base reads: JAN 23 1933 (/) © C1 I pub. 7077.
label: Description
content: The inventor of this object may be Bertram Ernest Adams (b. 1885). Adams graduated from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology with a degree in sanitary engineering in 1915 or 1916 and subsequently became a noted magician based in the Boston area. Best known for his 1921 book on card tricks, <i>Adamatica</i>, he served as president of the Society of American Magicians in 1932 and 1933. He was a registered voter in Brookline, Mass., as late as 1959. His papers are in the Boston Public Library.
label: Description
content: References: Library of Congress Copyright Office, <i>Catalog of Copyright Entries: Part 4, Works of Art, Etc.</i>, n.s. 27 (1932): 157; Massachusetts Institute of Technology, <i>Register of Former Students</i> 55, no. 15 (1920): 9; MIT Alumni Office, "News from the Classes: Complete List of the Members and Addresses of the Class of 1916," <i>The Technology Review</i> 18, no. 7 (1916): 791; "List of Voters in the Town of Brookline [Mass.]," August 1959, Precinct 9A, 21, http://archive.org/details/townofbrooklinel599broo.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Massachusetts, Brookline
topic: label: Subject
content: Mathematics
label: Subject
content: Rule, Calculating
label: Subject
content: Fire Fighting
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content: Medicine and Science: Mathematics
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content: Science & Mathematics
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content: Slide Rules
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Transfer from Smithsonian Institution Libraries
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1983.3009.02
label: catalog number
content: 1983.3009.02
label: nonaccession number
content: 1983.3009
objectType: label: Object Name
content: calculating rule
label: Object Name
content: slide rule
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: metal (cursor material)
label: Physical Description
content: wood (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: paper (part material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 1.2 cm x 8.3 cm x 21 cm; 15/32 in x 3 9/32 in x 8 9/32 in