Photograph (10" x 12") of E.Troughton's dividing engine

Photograph (10" x 12") of E.Troughton's dividing engine, 1793, from Brewster's Edinburgh Encyclopaedia vol. x, 1830, plate CCLXXIX

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Category:: Industrial Metrology

Object Number:: 1931-662

type:: photographic print and circular dividing engine

credit:: Science Museum Photographer

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Photograph (10" x 12") of E.Troughton's dividing engine

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