Circular slide rule in pocket-watch format

Made:: 1880-1890 in Holborn

maker:: William Ford Stanley

This image is released under a CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 Licence

Buy this image as a print

Buy

License this image for commercial use at Science and Society Picture Library

License

Boucher calculator
Science Museum Group
© The Board of Trustees of the Science Museum

Boucher calculator, a circular slide rule in pocket-watch format, made by Stanley, Great Turnstile, London, B4363, A222083

Details

Category:: Mathematics

Collection:: Sir Henry Wellcome's Museum Collection

Object Number:: 1989-655

Materials:: steel, glass and paper

Measurements:: overall: 17 x 55 x 75 mm

type:: circular slide rule

credit:: On loan from the Wellcome Trust

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.

Circular slide rule in pocket-watch format

Details

Related Objects

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

Sector signed John Allen (sector (Gunter))

Double surface of revolution of constant negative curvature (surface model)

Revolution of constant negative curvature (surface)

Stanhope square demonstrator, c.1805. (logic demonstrator)

Comptometer, manual operation (calculating machine (full-keyboard, adding))