Roget's log-log slide rule
Brass Roget's log-log slide rule.
- Measurements:
-
overall: 11 mm x 266 mm x 21 mm, 0.204 kg
- Materials:
- complete and brass (copper, zinc alloy)
- Object Number:
- 1857-44 Pt1
- type:
- slide rule
Roget's log-log slide rule with case
- inventor:
- Roget, Peter Mark
Roget's log-log slide rule, brass, with case. Displayed at the Great Exhibition, 1851 at Hyde Park, London.
Details
- Category:
- Mathematics
- Object Number:
- 1857-44
- Materials:
- brass (copper, zinc alloy)
- type:
- slide rule (log-log)
- credit:
- J & A Rooker
Parts
Case for Roget's log-log slide rule
Case for Roget's log-log slide rule.
- Materials:
- wood (unidentified)
- Object Number:
- 1857-44 Pt2
- type:
- instrument case
- Image ©
- The Board of Trustees of the Science Museum
