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Simple Machines
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- Moving images
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Physical description
1 filmstrip (ca. 20 min.) : physical composition unknown, b & w ; 35 mm in aluminum container.
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Basic Science Series
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Robert Row was a textbook author and teacher. Isaac Peterson had considerable experience as a textbook salesman as well as the willingness to risk his life savings. Together, they founded Row, Peterson & Co. by publishing Essential Studies in English, which sold at a rate of 100,000 copies a year.
The company made a deal with Copp Clark Co. in 1939 to reprint and distribute readers and textbooks in Canada, and a similar arrangement with a London firm saw Row, Peterson books appear throughout the British Commonwealth. A partnership with Hiroshima Publishing Company resulted in Japanese translations of some of Row, Peterson’s most popular texts. Deals in a number of other international markets followed.
The merger of Row, Peterson & Co. with Harper & Brothers in 1962 created Harper & Row, which was dubbed “one of the larger, better-diversified members of the book-publishing fraternity,” according to Barron’s National Business and Financial Weekly.
Custodial history
Item transferred to Archives and Museum from Lauderdale School in February 1985.
Scope and content
Item is a film about the usefulness of six simple machines: the inclined plane, the lever, the pulley, the wheel-and-axle, the wedge and the screw.
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No restrictions on access.
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Closed.
General note
Item is not a motion picture but is advanced manually.
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- Lauderdale School (Subject)
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Final
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Full
Dates of creation, revision and deletion
Entry created November 23, 2022 by AE.
Entry revised February 12, 2025 by MP.
Language of description
- English