Ivory plotting scale opens to rolling parallel rule and contains dividers and combined pen and pencil

Ivory plotting scale opens to rolling parallel rule and contains dividers and combined pen and pencil, engraved "From John Francis Erskine of Mar Esquire, to Robert Bald Esquire 1800", in case

Details

Category:
Mathematics
Object Number:
1938-734
Materials:
ivory
type:
drawing instruments, drawing scales (plotting) and parallel rules
credit:
Thomas H. Court

Parts

Case for ivory plotting scale

Case for ivory plotting scale

Case, red, for ivory plotting scale, which opens to rolling parallel rule.

Object Number:
1938-734/1
type:
case
Image ©
The Board of Trustees of the Science Museum
Ivory plotting scale opens to rolling parallel rule and contains dividers and combined pen and pencil

Ivory plotting scale opens to rolling parallel rule and contains dividers and combined pen and pencil

Ivory plotting scale, which opens to rolling parallel rule and contains dividers and combined pen and pencil, engraved "From John Francis Erskine of Mar Esquire, to Robert Bald Esquire 1800".

Materials:
ivory and metal (unknown)
Object Number:
1938-734/2
type:
plotting scale and parallel rule
Image ©
The Board of Trustees of the Science Museum
Small screw from ivory plotting scale

Small screw from ivory plotting scale

Small metal screw, from ivory plotting scale, which opens to rolling parallel rule.

Materials:
metal (unknown)
Object Number:
1938-734/3
type:
screw
Image ©
The Board of Trustees of the Science Museum