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Straight Slide Rule For Chemical Equivalents, by Cuff, London, Early 19th Century

Inventory Number 47057

Acknowledgement: © History of Science Museum, University of Oxford, inv.47057

Item type
Object
Primary inscriptions
At the head of the obverse is a (trimmed) title "[L]ogometric Scale of | [C]HEMICAL EQUIVALEN[TS] | [...]d for Experimental & Manufacturing Chemis[ts].
Physical material
Wood
Paper
Dimensions
Height: 430mm Width: 75mm
Inventory No
47057

Description

Wooden rule with printed paper scales covering the obverse and a lengthy printed explanatory text on the reverse (slightly trimmed). The heading of the reverse is partly missing through the shaping of the wooden stock but there is a sub-heading "Exhibited in the use of Dr. Wollaston's Logometrical Scale. | [Published by Mr CUFF, Old Bond-street {illegible}].

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