We are learning its alphabet. That it will develop a lexicon and a literature marvelous for its vividness and the variety of application is inevitable.

Graphs are dynamic, dramatic. They may epitomize an epoch, each dot a fact, each slope an event, each curve a history. Wherever there are data to record, inferences to draw, or facts to tell, graphs furnish the unrivalled means whose power we are just beginning to realize and to apply.

HENRY D. HUBBARD

National Bureau of Standards Washington, D. C.

GRAPHIC PRESENTATION

By

WILLARD COPE BRINTON, S. B.

Consulting Engineer

Member, American Society of Mechanical Engineers; Organizer and Chairman, Joint Committee on Standards for Graphic Presentation, Formed 1914 Through Am.Soc.M.E., as Sponsor. Fellow, American Statistical Association; Vice President, 1919. Author Graphic Methods for Presenting Facta, 1914, McGraw-Hill Book Company, Inc.

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BRINTON ASSOCIATES

New York City

This book was planned with the hope of inspiring more and better factual presentation. If proper credits are given, any reasonable portion of this book may be quoted without further consent. However, to copy any materials here credited to others, care must be exercised to secure permission from the original sources.

Copyright, Brinton Associates, 1939 First Edition

Also by Willard C. Brinton

GRAPHIC METHODS FOR PRESENTING FACTS. 1914

Published by McGraw-Hill Book Company, Inc.

New York City

Printed in the United States of America

TABLE OF CONTENTS

When a chapter name or number is given as a reference, turn to the Topical Index, either on Page 1 or Page 247, and spin pages to the desired chapter.