Combination dividers

Made:
1772-1795 in London
maker:
George Adams
Combination dividers, beam compass

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Combination dividers, beam compass
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Combination dividers, beam compass, and semi - elliptical compass in fish skin case, engraved:- "G.Adams, Inst. Maker to his Majesty, Invenit", latter half of eighteenth century

Details

Category:
Mathematics
Object Number:
1916-308
type:
drawing instruments, beam compasses, dividers (compass) and elliptical trammels
credit:
Thomas H. Court

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