Fun fact, in the network and security world, there used to be a tool called picviz that was doing exactly the same kind of things.
https://doc.ubuntu-fr.org/picviz (Sorry I could only find it in French). Seems defunct nowadays.
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These are known as https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parallel_coordinates and are a pretty old technique. Although the wiki lists process control as one of the major users, their history has them as dormant until revived in their modern form in the 1960s, which doesn't quite match your timeline. Perhaps the discrepancy is resolved by whether parallel axes were used as a equation solving aid versus a visualization aid? Th…
The ones I'm thinking of were "nomograms" (thanks to user 'chemeng'). Visually they look like perhaps a very specific subset of "Parallel coordinate" graphs. Definitely more for calculation rather than visualization. Evidently they were popular from around 1890 to at least 1950.
They are still quite useful for predicting boiling points under reduced pressure.
https://www.sigmaaldrich.com/chemistry/solvents/learning-cen...