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Gauger's Slide Rule, English, 18th Century

Inventory Number 49447


Acknowledgement: © History of Science Museum, University of Oxford, inv.49447

Item type
Object
Provenance
Presented by the Friends of the Old Ashmolean. Purchased by them from Mrs Alkin.
Primary inscriptions
Unsigned and undated (though two sliders jammed)
Physical material
Boxwood
Object type
Slide rule
Dimensions
Height: 17mm Width: 612mm Depth: 31mm Weight: 0.272kg
Inventory No
49447
Accession Number
1932-26?

Description

Single straight 2 foot stock of rectangular section with a slider on three faces.