Pocket set of drawing instruments by William Harris of no.47 Holborn

Made:: 1805-1815 in Holborn

maker:: William Harris

Pocket set of drawing instruments by William Harris of no.47 Holborn, London, in black fish-skin case

Details

Category:: Mathematics

Object Number:: 1950-54

type:: drawing instrument sets

credit:: Council of Industrial Design

Cite this page

Rights

We encourage the use and reuse of our collection data.

Data in the title, made, maker and details fields are released under Creative Commons Zero

Descriptions and all other text content are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 licence

Using our data

Download

Download catalogue entry as json

Download manifest IIIF

Our records are constantly being enhanced and improved, but please note that we cannot guarantee the accuracy of any information shown on this website.

Pocket set of drawing instruments by William Harris of no.47 Holborn

Details

Related Objects

Compendium rule signed Humfrey Cole (carpenters' rules)

Calculating rule by Lenoir in centimetres with conversions (slide rule)

Ready reckoner for ship's cargoes (ready reckoners (cargo))

Gunter sector signed Elias Allen (sector (Gunter))

Square signed "J.Ramsden, 1757" (squaring drawing instruments; set squares)

Sector signed John Allen (sector (Gunter))