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Description: | STANLEY GREAT TURNSTILE LONDON ENGLAND (printed on a label insid the lid of the box) 8 (in white paint on the end of the box). 9836 49 (serial number and date engraved on the long index). FULLER CALCULATOR MADE IN ENGLAND (engraved on the long index). FULLER'S SPIRAL SLIDE RULE (on the outer cylinder). STANLEY Maker LONDON (on the outer cylinder). STANLEY TRADE MARK P. 1615 (moulded into the bakelite end plate) NAVAL ARCHITECTURE GLASGOW UNIVERSITY N0. 7 engraved into the other Bakelite end plate and picked out in white). DES FULLER,George. 1878 Queen's College, Belfast, Northern Ireland MANU W.F. Stanley. 1949 South Norwood, London, England DES after NAPIER,John,Baron. 1614 Merchiston Castle, Edinburgh, Scotland. DES after OUGHTRED,William. 1632 Albury, Hertfordshire, En This is Fuller's spiral rule with printed tables of decimal equivalents and trigonometric functions. The scale is 83 feet 4 inches in length giving it great accuracy. The average straight slide rule has a scale of about 10 inches. This instrument has three concentric cylinders such that the two outer ones carrying the scales can revolve and slide about the inner fixed cylinder in any direction. The calculator has two indexes so that any part of one scale can be transferred to the other. Unlike later versions this instrument does not have a detachable wooden handle or brass stand. | License: | http://www.hmag.gla.ac.uk/spirit/rights/ | Publisher: | Hunterian Museum and Art Gallery, University of Glasgow | Rights holder: | Hunterian Museum and Art Gallery, University of Glasgow | Subjects: | SCIENTIFIC COLLECTION : | Source: | Hunterian Museum | Creator: | Hunterian Museum and Art Gallery, University of Glasgow | Identifier: | http://www.huntsearch.gla.ac.uk/cgi-bin/... | Language: | en-GB | Go to resource |
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