|
Date: |
|
Description: | 8482 45
FULLER CALCULATOR WITH SCALE OF SINES AND LOGS MADE IN ENGLAND
FULLER'S SPIRAL SLIDE RULE
National Maritime Museum GLASGOW
STANLEY TRADEMARK EVERYTHING FOR THE ENGINEER, ARCHITECT & SURVEYOR IN FIELD & DRAWING OFFICE W.F.STANLEY & CO LTD 286 HIGH HOLBORN, LONDON, W.C.1
STANLEY. Maker. LONDON
Barrel slide rule in a box. The holder is marked EQS0527.1.
AUDIT - one unnumbered part. (box)
Also known as cylindrical calculators. The main logarithmic slide is about 500 inches. The standard slide rule used in ship design offices upto the 1960's. The long slides give an accuracy of 1 in 10,000. They can give logs, sines and cosines. The designer could carrry out immense numbers of calculations in a day with great confidence. Until one got used to it one's hands got tired at the end of the day. (F.M.Walker).
This object was discovered by the Collections Inventory Project with no numbers or documentation. It needs further Cataloguing and updating when information becomes available.
caption: Record Shot - Do not reproduce. | Publisher: | "http://collections.rmg.co.uk/" | Rights holder: | "Royal Museums Greenwich" | Source: | Royal Museums Greenwich | Identifier: | http://collections.rmg.co.uk/collections... | Go to resource |
|
|