Links and trees

Studied from its original page

Streetcar load model

Frankfurt streetcar load model · '1 Lamelle = 4000 Pers.' (handwritten on the model's frame)

Made by
Frankfurt transit exhibit, Leipzig building trade exhibition
Year
1913
Field
Management and industry
Kind
Physical object
Room
Links and trees

Not shown here: its rights are not cleared

See the original page — Fig. 185, printed p. 225 (archive leaf n244)

Test A passes (published 1914) but test B fails: the page is Brinton's book and he died in 1957 (B would run to 2027).

The data it needs

  • from_node identity · categorical
  • to_node identity · categorical
  • route_geometry position on the base map · geographic
  • count value, quantised to one lamella per 4,000 · quantitative · passengers per 24 hours

Built in 4 steps, as its maker described

running head 'Map Presentations', pp. 224-226, Fig. 185 (p. 225); exhibited at the Internationale Baufach-Ausstellung, Leipzig, 1913

Skeleton drawing, not the original plate

55 other forms share this skeleton

Source

Brinton 1914, Graphic Methods for Presenting Facts, pp.224-226

Attribution less certain: contested, or no single inventor recorded

Searches, not citations

archive.orgcommons.wikimedia.orgscholar.google.com