Object Details
- Brown & Sharpe Manufacturing Company
- Description
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- This table was found in the collections of what was then the Division of Work and Industry at the National Museum of American History.
- Compare 1988.3078.02.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Credit Line
- Transfer from Division of Engineering and Industry
- 1943
- ID Number
- 1988.3078.01
- catalog number
- 1988.3078.01
- nonaccession number
- 1988.3078
- Object Name
- mathematical table
- Physical Description
- plastic (overall material)
- Measurements
- overall: .1 cm x 5 cm x 11.2 cm; 1/32 in x 1 31/32 in x 4 13/32 in
- place made
- United States: Rhode Island, Providence
- See more items in
- Medicine and Science: Mathematics
- Mathematical Charts and Tables
- Science & Mathematics
- Measuring & Mapping
- National Museum of American History
- Subject
- Mathematics
- Manufacturing
- Record ID
- nmah_1213741
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746aa-a2f3-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa
