Values across a surface

Studied from its original page

Slotted interlocking-card surface model

cardboard curve-sheet model (Brinton) · egg-crate model

Made by
E. S. Farwell (data), via the American Machinist; described by Willard C. Brinton
Year
by 1914
Field
Physical objects
Kind
Physical object
Room
Values across a surface

Not shown here: its rights are not cleared

See the original page — Fig. 236, printed p. 335 (archive leaf n354)

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

  • x independent · quantitative · per cent outlet opening
  • y independent · quantitative · revolutions per minute
  • z value · quantitative · per cent efficiency

Built in 4 steps, as its maker described

not located; known only from Brinton's credit line under Fig. 236

Skeleton drawing, not the original plate

6 other forms share this skeleton

Source

Brinton 1914, Graphic Methods for Presenting Facts, Fig. 236

Attribution less certain: contested, or no single inventor recorded

Searches, not citations

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