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Straight Slide Rule for Gauging, by Thomas Cooke, London, 1709

Inventory Number 44279


Acknowledgement: © History of Science Museum, University of Oxford, inv.44279

Item type
Object
Provenance
Transferred from the Ashmolean Museum in 1950. Marked and labelled by an earlier collector as purchased in 1879.
Physical material
Wood
Object type
Slide rule
Inventory No
44279
Accession Number
1950-13

Description

A wooden slide rule with scales of four sides. The rule has two sliding pieces.