Object Details
- Description
- This battered table, printed on heavy green paper, gives an alphabetical list of units of measure, conversion factors, and new units of measure. For example, for the unit of measure centimeters, the conversion factor is 0.3937. Multiplying a measurement in centimeters by the conversion factor gives a result in inches.
- The table was distributed by Precision Equipment Company of Chicago, Illinois. The back of the table advertises the company’s shelving and safety steps. A sentence at the bottom of the chart reads: Reproduced with the Permission of Foxboro Co. and Exporters’ Digest.
- The owner of the table inserted a row with the conversion factor of 1.151 for converting from nautical miles to statute miles.
- Exporters’ Digest was published from 1927 through 1958. Foxboro Company was in business from 1912 through 1990. A surviving piece of trade literature suggests that the Precision Equipment Company was in business in the 1950s. Hence the rough date of 1950 assigned to the object.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Credit Line
- Gift of John White
- ca 1950
- ID Number
- 1981.0922.16
- accession number
- 1981.0922
- catalog number
- 1981.0922.16
- Object Name
- sheet
- Physical Description
- paper (overall material)
- Measurements
- overall: .1 cm x 21 cm x 24.7 cm; 1/32 in x 8 9/32 in x 9 23/32 in
- place made
- United States: Illinois, Chicago
- See more items in
- Medicine and Science: Mathematics
- Mathematical Charts and Tables
- Science & Mathematics
- Measuring & Mapping
- National Museum of American History
- Subject
- Mathematics
- Record ID
- nmah_904711
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746a7-52c4-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa
