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Pedometer, by FWR, Swiss, Post 1882

Inventory Number 35351


Acknowledgement: © History of Science Museum, University of Oxford, inv.35351

Subject
Surveying
Item type
Object
Makers
'F.W.R.'
Provenance
Presented by A.W. Pullan, the grandson of Major-General Sir Edmund DuCane K.C.B., R.E. (1830-1903), the original owner of this instrument.
Primary inscriptions
"FWR" and winged wheel trademark.
Physical material
Silver and glass
Object type
Pedometer
Dimensions
Diameter: 42mm Height: 74mm Depth: 12mm Weight: 47g
Inventory No
35351
Accession Number
1976-12

Description

Silver case, marked "J.L.", "0.935", and has three Swiss silver marks (the bear) in use from 1882 to 1934. White enameled face marked in yards up to one mile, and with a small dial counting revolutions in miles of the large hand.