Jessica Helfand, author of Reinventing the Wheel (Princeton Architectural Press, 2002), shares some of her favorite vintage culinary wheelcharts.
The Wheel o' Life
Twenty years ago, my father gave me my first paper wheel chart. An information-rich rotating nutrition guide marketed to physicians and druggists in the 1940s, it was dubbed The Wheel o' Life. I loved its bold design, neat functionality, and kitschy terminology (phosphorus was labeled "the life-thought mineral"; chlorine, "the laundry man mineral"). It wasn't long before I became an avid collector of other such charts. The computers of their day, volvelles, as they're called, originated in medieval manuscripts as tools for representing data.Photo Galleries
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