Two paper maker's slide rules

Made:: 1918-1925 in London

supplier:: F E Becker and Company

maker:: William Stanhope Buchanan

Two paper maker's slide rules, patented by William Stanhope Buchanan in 1918: an initial rough model and a finished example made by C.T. Cooper and Sons for Becker and Co.

Paper maker's slide rule

1918-1925

One of two paper maker's slide rules

1918-1925

Details

Category:: Mathematics

Object Number:: 1988-921

type:: slide rule (paper) and slide rule (buchanan)

credit:: Delehar, P.

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