Slide Chart, Your Danger Zone
Object Details
- Aetna Casualty and Surety Company
- Description
- This small slide chart allows motorists to find their “danger zone,” that is to say the distance an automobile will move forward in feet after a motorist wishes to stop, as this varies with the speed of the car (ranging from 20 to 80 miles per hour) and the reaction time of the driver (ranging from 1/4 second to 1 second). The total stopping distange or “danger zone” ranges from 29 feet to 469 feet.
- The envelope and slide are of white paper, printed in red and black. A mark on the front, the back and one side of the slide reads: COPYRIGHT, 1935, AETNA CASUALTY & SURETY CO.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Credit Line
- Gift of Oscar W. Richards
- ca 1935
- ID Number
- 1979.3074.06
- nonaccession number
- 1979.3074
- catalog number
- 1979.3074.06
- Object Name
- mathematical table
- Physical Description
- paper (overall material)
- Measurements
- overall: .5 cm x 15 cm x 7.8 cm; 3/16 in x 5 29/32 in x 3 1/16 in
- place made
- United States: Connecticut, Hartford
- See more items in
- Medicine and Science: Mathematics
- Mathematical Charts and Tables
- Science & Mathematics
- National Museum of American History
- Subject
- Mathematics
- Safety
- Automobiles
- Record ID
- nmah_692577
- Metadata Usage (text)
- CC0
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746b3-14e4-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa
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